Re: multipathing ts1120s under RHEL6

2014-05-23 Thread Zoltan Forray
If you go to www.adsm.org and click on "Mailing List Archives" in the "Navigation" box on the left side - then search for *udevinfo* (*udevadm*for RH6 - our "tape owning servers" are still RH5 until next year when we replace them), you will see a similar discussion with details. On Fri, May 23, 2

Re: multipathing ts1120s under RHEL6

2014-05-23 Thread Neil Strand
Lee, By your initial description, it looks like you are not seeking to do multipathing but to configure a shared library environment. If you have a tape library with multiple drives and two TSM servers and you want both TSM servers to be able to access all of the drives, you should designate

Re: multipathing ts1120s under RHEL6

2014-05-23 Thread Zoltan Forray
We too are running RH6 and 5 Linux servers with 1120 and 1130 drives. We have only have one path to our drives. As far as we can tell the other paths are for redundancy only. The Lin_tape drivers and path process will only let you define/use one at a time. Zoltan Forray TSM Software & Hardware Ad

Re: multipathing ts1120s under RHEL6

2014-05-23 Thread Lee, Gary
Ok, unloading multipath. How do I deal with the issue of multiple paths to each drive? I have four fc ports all connected to the san. Sorry to appear dense, just not familiar with fiberchanel. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of C

Re: multipathing ts1120s under RHEL6

2014-05-23 Thread Cameron Hanover
To expand on it slightly, add this option for modprobe once lin_tape is isntalled: options lin_tape alternate_pathing=1 http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.doc%2Fc_multipath_io_support_unix.html - Cameron Hanover chano...@umich.edu When any g

Re: multipathing ts1120s under RHEL6

2014-05-23 Thread Michael Prix
Gary, dm-multipath is for diskdrives. You want to use lin_tape for the handling of the FC-attachment of the tape drives. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Michael Prix On 05/22/2014 09:14 PM, Lee, Gary wrote: > I am now attempting to share libraries containing IBM ts1120 drives between