IBM tape drive on SUN box.

Did any body tried IBM tape drive on solaris 8 and legato as backup software. We are having system panics when we try to access Tape drives.

I have used external IBM SCSI drive with Solaris8 and legato without any issues.
What kind of a tape drive is it? What is the Sun Hardware platform being used? Are there any messages logged just before the panic? Is st.conf configured properly? Is there a problem on the scsi bus?
You might want to send the core files to Sun, if you have got suport on the box or use kdb yourself.

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Kindly reply me ASAP.

Dear All,
Problem Solved by below activity :-
http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/topic/com.sybase.infocenter.dc38421.1572/doc/html/san1335472614455.html?resultof=%22%64%75%6d%70%22%20%22%64%61%74%61%62%61%73%65%22%20%22%64%61%74%61%62%61%73%22%20
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2> go
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1585981 SYB: Ensuring Recoverability for Sybase ASE (has some
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1> dump transaction DEV using config = 'DEVLOG' with capacity = 87000000, init
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and
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2> go
1> dump transaction DEV to "\\.\TAPE0" with capacity = 87000000, init
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Hi all,
I have StorageTek L20 robot (FW 2.12.06) and IBM Ultrium-TD1 tape drive (FW:59C0) which i updated with latest firmware.
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Hi,
I am currently implementing Oracle Secure Backup. My environment is this:
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Database: Oracle Database 11.2.0.1.0
Tape Library: IBM-ULT 3580-TD4
I will have to configure 2 machines to work with OSB: server01 and server02.
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Server02:
This will serve as the client, admin
When I log in to Server01, in the device manager, I can see the Tape Drives (no warnings, no questions marks) so I think it's good.
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sun4u/kernel /kernel /usr/kernel]:
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SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-15 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
|
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Enter physical name of root device
[/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/disk@0,0:a]: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/disk@1,0:a
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You never know when you'll need to add more disks.
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Single-Ended? High Voltage Differential? Low Voltage Differential?
You need a card that matches that interface type if you hope it to "drive" the tape.
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Sun's 375-0006 is a HVD card and would be correct for A1000 and D1000 arrays or L7 or L25 tape libraries.
Sun's 375-3057 card is LVD and would be appropriate for Sun's D2 array.
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http://192.18.109.11/816-2156-11/816-2156-11.pdf
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