[Veritas-bu] HP Win2003 server with fiber attached Quantum SDLT320s (driver problem)

[Oleg Ivanov]

Melinda,
one ?:
1)are the tape drive native fiber or connected to Fiber-to-SCSI bridge?
if your drive is native fiber, i would look into fabric switch or HBA card setting. It look to me that your problems is negotiating the same protocol between HBA and Fabric switch. I had a situation where one HBA was set to arbitrated loop and another was set to Point-to-Point, and i was not getting any connectivity, and yes, it was working on direct fiber cable connect. 
hope it helps.
Oleg


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> From: <morms at es.com>
> Date: 2004/01/13 Tue PM 03:08:17 EST
> To: <veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] HP Win2003 server with fiber attached Quantum SDLT320s (driver problem)
> 
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> Is anyone running an HP server with fiber attached Quantum SDLT320
> drives?  If so, what tape device driver are you using?
> 
> I have an HP ML370 with NC2101 HBAs running windows server 2003 standard
> edition and DataCenter 4.5_fp5.  
> I have tried the built-in windows driver, the latest Veritas driver and
> the latest Quantum driver.  I am getting timeouts on my HBAs(event 9)
> and then Veritas reports media read errors with all the Quantum drives.
> However,  I can access an HP drive using the HP tape device driver
> across the same HBA & fiber connection with no problem.  
> 
> If anyone has any ideas, I appreciate the input.
> Thanks,
> Melinda
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