CentOS - Feb 2016 - CentOS 6.7 Drivers for Compaq Storageworks TL891 Minilibrary

Hello all

I am trying to setup a backup system using Bacula on CentOS 6.7 installed on
eserver x345 but cannot find the drivers

Any help in finding the drivers will be much appreciated

Regards

Mustafa

On 2/17/2016 3:54 PM, Mustafa Mohammed wrote:
> I am trying to setup a backup system using Bacula on CentOS 6.7 installed
on eserver x345 but cannot find the drivers

thats a /really/ old tape library, like 18 or 20 years old, was 
originally a DEC product before the Compaq+DEC+HP transmutation.

what does lsscsi show ?



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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

Once upon a time, Mustafa Mohammed <netechie at yahoo.com>
said:
> I am trying to setup a backup system using Bacula on CentOS 6.7 installed
on eserver x345 but cannot find the drivers
I set one of those up many years ago, probably RHEL 3 timeframe.  No
drivers are necessary for the library, although you will have to find a
differential SCSI card that is still supported to connect it (don't know
about that; I haven't touched parallel SCSI in ages, and the TL891 was
probably the last high-voltage differential device I used).
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Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>

On 2/17/2016 4:56 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Mustafa Mohammed<netechie at yahoo.com>  said:
>> >I am trying to setup a backup system using Bacula on CentOS 6.7
installed on eserver x345 but cannot find the drivers
> I set one of those up many years ago, probably RHEL 3 timeframe.  No
> drivers are necessary for the library, although you will have to find a
> differential SCSI card that is still supported to connect it (don't
know
> about that; I haven't touched parallel SCSI in ages, and the TL891 was
> probably the last high-voltage differential device I used).


ooof, if that thing is HVD, then plugging it into a regular SCSI card 
will likely blow up the card, and could fry the SCSI interface on the 
library too.

however, this manual, 
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00626568.pdf   suggests there's 
two versions, HVD and regular fast-wide SE scsi.   quite a bit of 
cabling is required.


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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz