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Document T6423053-01, Ver. 1, Rel. 0, November 2002

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Tandberg Data FC420
Bridge Option User’s Guide

Introduction

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Fibre Channel Overview ...................................................................... 3

Library Operation After FC420 Bridge Installation ............................... 3

Cabling the M2500 Library for Fibre Channel

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One- and Two-Drive Library Cabling ................................................... 4

Cabling with Three or More Drives ...................................................... 5

Setting SCSI IDs

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Configuring FC420 Firmware

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Setting Up an Ethernet Connection ..................................................... 8

Verifying Current FC420 Firmware .................................................... 10

Setting Local Echo Mode................................................................... 10

Scanning the SCSI buses on the Library........................................... 10

Creating a Map File for the FC420 .................................................... 11

Making Other Configuration Changes ............................................... 11

Updating FC420 Firmware

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Summary of Contents for MSERIES FC USER

Page 1: ...e M2500 Library for Fibre Channel 4 One and Two Drive Library Cabling 4 Cabling with Three or More Drives 5 Setting SCSI IDs 7 Configuring FC420 Firmware 8 Setting Up an Ethernet Connection 8 Verifyin...

Page 2: ...dge Option User s Guide Document T6423053 01 Ver 1 Rel 0 November 2002 2 6207947 04fN 13 FC420 Services Software Commands 13 FC420 Service Software Operation 13 Command Syntax 14 List of Abbreviations...

Page 3: ...a transfer architecture for use with computers and mass storage devices Fibre Channel is rapidly emerging to challenge SCSI as the interface of choice for host to storage applications Fibre Channel ad...

Page 4: ...drives the cabling is the same regardless of drive type or SAN One or two drive libraries only require one FC420 Fibre bridge Figure 1 shows the cabling for a one drive library Figure 1 One Drive Cabl...

Page 5: ...vailable to each tape drive Cabling with Three or More Drives 0 When cabling M2500 libraries with three or more tape drives you need to know the type of tape drive installed in the library and the dat...

Page 6: ...re 3 One Drive Per FC420 Port Cabling SDLT LTO Drive Cabling with a 2 GB SAN 0 If the M2500 library with SDLT or LTO drives is connected to a 2 GB SAN Tandberg Data recommends a maximum ratio of 2 tap...

Page 7: ...IDs for the library Table 1 SCSI ID Settings Note To increase the bandwidth available to each tape drive install additional FC420 Fibre bridges and use the cabling configuration shown in figure 3 Dev...

Page 8: ...lly connected to which Fibre Channel ports on the FC420 board The major steps for configuring FC420 Fibre bridge firmware involve Setting Up an Ethernet Connection Verifying Current FC420 Firmware on...

Page 9: ...ick the Specify an IP address option button The IP Address Subnet Mask and Gateway fields become active f Type 10 0 0 x where x is a number between 2 and 253 in the IP Address field 255 255 255 0 in t...

Page 10: ...local echo mode type set SerialPortEcho enabled at the Ready prompt and then press Enter Scanning the SCSI buses on the Library 0 Use the following procedure to confirm that the SCSI buses are cabled...

Page 11: ...tes 3 When the Ready prompt reappears type saveconfiguration and press Enter 4 When the Ready prompt reappears type firmwarerestart and press Enter Making Other Configuration Changes 0 The preceding f...

Page 12: ...Up an Ethernet Connection on page 8 3 From the computer open a command prompt window and type ftp FC420 IP address and then press Enter 4 When prompted for a username type sysadmin or the current syst...

Page 13: ...value of a parameter or setting This command may be abbreviated to g Set changes the value of a parameter or setting This command may be abbreviated s and does not take effect until a SaveConfigurati...

Page 14: ...Services Software commands is shown in table 1 Table 2 Most Common FC420 Services Commands Command Description Default Syntax AutoMap Immediate Automatically maps all currently operational SCSI device...

Page 15: ...Fh for the mask event_level switch mask that controls what reporting level events are displayed The mask is a byte value with the following bit patterns corresponding to the currently supported report...

Page 16: ...current speed of the connection is indicated in parentheses in the response to the get ethernetspeed command auto set ethernetspeed 10 100 auto get ethernetspeed Exit Immediate Exits the current Teln...

Page 17: ...tiator enabled disabled get fcinitiator FcPortList Immediate Lists the available Fibre Channel ports and their current status fcportlist Fcp2 Enables disables the Fibre bridge s compliance with the FC...

Page 18: ...he Fibre port number set fcwwname portnumber 0xnn 0xnn 0xnn get fcwwname portnumber FibreBridgeModel Reports the specific FC420 model information get fibrebridgemodel FibreBridgeName Specify the 8 cha...

Page 19: ...he current IP gateway assigned by the nameserver 0 0 0 0 set ipgateway xxx xxx xxx xxx get ipgateway IPSubnetMask Sets displays the current subnet mask If the ipdhcp command is enabled the get command...

Page 20: ...egrees C 5 40 degrees C 70 C set maxencltempalrm 5 40 get maxencltempalrm Menu Enables disabled the menu interface Entering the command alone without parameters toggles the current state menu enabled...

Page 21: ...RELEASED status since it may issue set commands reserve RestoreConfiguration Immediate Restore to factory default configuration or the last saved configuration The new configuration must be saved to...

Page 22: ...sb ScsiPortResetOnStartup Specify whether the SCSI port should be reset on power up enabled set scsiportresetonstartup sb enabled disabled get scsiportresetonstartup sb ScsiPortSelTimeout Show the tim...

Page 23: ...nterface CLI session with a given host This information is taken from NVRAM Any map coinciding with a user specified ServicesLUN must first be set to offline before attempting to change the ServicesLU...

Page 24: ...a SCSI device selection time out or busy event disabled set virtualdriveresponse enabled disabled get virtualdriveresponse XCDevices Displays information about the devices used in a specified Extended...

Page 25: ...opy commands issued to the Fibre bridge Each Extended Copy command is identified with a unique number This number called cmdnumber is used when invoking the xcdevices and xcerror commands get xcstatus...

Page 26: ...Tandberg Data FC420 Bridge Option User s Guide Document T6423053 01 Ver 1 Rel 0 November 2002 26 FC420 Services Software Commands...

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