Re: [Bacula-users] Autochangers over Fiber Channel

2007-11-06 Thread Mike Seda
Hi Flak, I use mtx all the time with my Quantum PX502 Autochanger (LTO-3, FC, One Drive) on RHEL 4 AS (32-bit). The only gotcha is that FC AL does not work with the autochanger, and I was forced to use FC Point-to-Point. If you are doing FC Point-to-Point you need to have an FC switch or a mult

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochangers over Fiber Channel

2007-10-26 Thread Peter Buschman
Yes. FCP (FibreChannel Protocol) is a derivative of the SCSI command set and looks just like it from the operating system's perspective. Odds are the same high-level SCSI driver in the Linux kernel would be used in both cases (SCSI & Fiber) so mtx will probably work out-of-the-box if you have

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochangers over Fiber Channel

2007-10-26 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Flak Magnet wrote: > Does anyone on the list have any experience with autochangers and fiber > channel connections working with MTX (and therefore bacula)? Yes. Whether fibre channel or traditional scsi, changers are seen as scsi devices. > So Arno indicates that fiber cha

[Bacula-users] Autochangers over Fiber Channel

2007-10-26 Thread Flak Magnet
I currently have a Quantum-SL3 autochanger working with Bacula running on Solaris with a LVD-SCSI connection. We're looking at acquiring a 2nd one and attaching it via fiber channel to a Linux host and "driving" that one with Bacula too. The MTX compatiblity page doesn't have any indication of