EWTHeckman Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 Over in the Autoloader functions not enabled thread, I have been working on troubleshooting my new HP StorageWorks 40x6 drive. If you have one of these drives and you are successfully using it with Retrospect on your Mac, please go over there and post the switch settings for your drive along with the SCSI card and OS version you are using. Thank you! (Note: I created this separate thread so that my cry for help could be seen without having to dig into the original thread.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 As far as switch settings, all of our testing is done with factory default settings. We test with the ATTO scsi cards. Any SCSI ID, except for Zero should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 (edited) Any SCSI ID, except for Zero should work. Sure about that, Robin? I think that any SCSI ID except for 7 (used by the ATTO controller) should work if there are no other SCSI devices on the chain, which seems to be the case here. See also Chapter 3 (page 5) of the ATTO installation manual: ATTO installation manual Russ Edited April 23, 2008 by Guest fix ATTO manual link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 True, but I assumed everyone knows not to use 7. Some hardware won't even give you the choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted April 23, 2008 Report Share Posted April 23, 2008 The ATTO cards will let you use SCSI ID 7 for non-HBA devices if you use ATTO's Configuration Tool to change the SCSI ID used by the HBA from its default of 7. Never done it, myself. FYI, our autoloader and tape drive are at SCSI 0 and 1, respectively. Always have been except for the time that they were on the same SCSI chain as a RAID 1 mirror, which Retrospect didn't like. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWTHeckman Posted April 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 As part of my digging yesterday, I came across something (I can't lay my hands on it right now) that implied that the Mac OS may not like the fact that both the loader and the drive mechanism share the same SCSI ID, even though they have different LUN IDs. Since HP probably used this arrangement for other libraries, I would also like to here from someone successfully using ANY HP library on the Mac. How does your library show up in System Profile? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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