HP Ultrium Tape Drive manual Where, When you have exited sam, run ioscan to see the tape drive

1.% sam

This will bring up the graphical user interface for the utility.

2.Select the following:

Peripheral Devices

Tape Drives

sam will then scan the system for any tape drives connected.

When an HP Ultrium Generation 3 drive is found, it will be displayed as:

Hardware Path Driver Description

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8/0/2/0.3.0 stape HP Ultrium 3-SCSI

3.Highlight the Ultrium drive and select the following from the tool bar:

Actions

Create Device Files

Create Default Device Files

This will create default device files for the drive. To view the device files that have been created, select:

Actions

Create Device Files

Show Device Files

where:

Device File	Description
<I>	is the instance number of the drive:
<I>m	AT&T encoding, rewind driver
<I>mn	AT&T encoding, non-rewind driver
<I>mb	Berkeley encoding, rewind driver
<I>mnb	Berkeley encoding, rewind driver
<X>	is the card number,
<Y>	is the target number,
<Z>	is the LUN number:
cXtYbZBEST	Best compression driver, AT&T encoding, with rewind
cXtYbZBESTb	Best compression driver, Berkeley encoding, with rewind
cXtYbZBESTn	Best compression driver, AT&T encoding, non-rewind
cXtYbZBESTnb	Best compression driver, Berkeley encoding, non-rewind

4.When you have exited sam, run ioscan to see the tape drive:

%/sbin/ioscan -C tape -fn

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