hi,
need your help mentors I have external SCSI tape DRIVE COmpaq 15/30 GB DLT and I dont know how to install these and how to view if it is working. I'm also have another disk taken form my old sun and I want to use these also but my problem how I able to mount.
hope anyone can help me
thanks in advance
solaris should use the native st module (SCSI tape Driver), plug your cable in and run the "devfsadm -v" command. you should find a /dev/rmt/0 device now. to test it, you can use "mt status" or "tar" to backup something...
same way with your new drive, but we would need more information to guide you, post an "iostat -En" output after devfsadm....
gP
thanks..
I'll try this
hi sorry to bother you guys I really have a problem on this, Just want to know how do I get in on this server using telnet, I have a workstation then I want to telnet this but it says "Not on system console
Connection closed by foreign host"
even I used the root account,is their any restriction of these server that I have to changed?
thank you very very much for your help
you have to enable the "root-login" in your /etc/default/login:
# If CONSOLE is set, root can only login on that device.
# Comment this line out to allow remote login by root.
#
# CONSOLE=/dev/console
regards pressy
Hi Pressy it works now 
I'm thankful for this forum site it helps me a lot
Thanks for sharing your skills Pressy
Hi Pressy,
Heres the result of iostat -En
# iostat -En
c0t1d0 Soft Errors: 1 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST34520LC Revision: 1483 Serial No:
Size: 4.54GB <4536791040 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 1 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c0t3d0 Soft Errors: 1 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST34371W Revision: 0532 Serial No:
Size: 4.35GB <4349030400 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 1 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c0t6d0 Soft Errors: 2 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: TOSHIBA Product: XM-4101TASUNSLCD Revision: 1084 Serial No: 04/18/94
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 2 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
rmt/0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: DEC Product: DLT2000 15/30 GB Revision: 840B Serial No: a
here is also the result when I execute the df -k command
df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 2193251 959997 1189389 45% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
swap 678460 16 678444 1% /var/run
swap 678744 300 678444 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7 1434346 9 1376964 1% /export/home
How i able to mount the second drive, by the way the second drive has a data on it thats why I need to have this mounted so that i can see it
Thansk very much
ok, that output tells me that the tape drive is already configured and can be used (rmt/0) and your second hdd has c0t1d0 as target device id.
you said that data is on it, do you know on which slice/partition?
e.g.: if you want to mount slice 0 of the new disk on /mnt you could use:
# mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 /mnt
gP
btw: how old is that machine with 4,5 GByte disks? 
Hi Pressy,
I don't have idea which slice the data reside, anyway I'm planning to use the tape to restore the binaries coz I already seen the binaries in the tape when I ran the tar -tvf. Now my problem is i have to restore this data via network since we have application that will run only on the 5.6 version of sun and these station is running 5.9 so I have to install again. By the way I want to share to you how this things goes on.
First we have a server that being use for designing application all binaries was stored here but the data was placed separately thru external disk now then suddenly the disk crashed and also this server is very sensitive if we reboot this it will take long to up and sometimes we spend more hours just to isolate and have it up. Since I have to install OS 5.6 version frrom scratch and load the binaries from tape, by the way I have spare sun station, here's the model "
SunOS petcdc 5.9 Generic_112233-10 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20" petcdc is my hostname. and i think I dont have any prblem with the hardware in this station because what ever I changed or add peripherals it will work and up so decided to use this now as replacement to the server that having a problem.
I already have the tape and data on it now my problem is to restore this via network using the other station and you know the tape is dated 2005 that means it is very old so i have to make another copy on it on the disk to make it sure it is operational.
Do you know how i'm going to share my directories to the sun station, I mean mount the shared filesystem on the other station so that i can restore the data on the other station?
I hope you could help me
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Hi Pressy,
Thank you so much for the knowledge you shared...
Please ignore my last post I already mount the filesytem
thanks