HP LTO 4 FC Configuration and initialization, Operating system drivers, Inquiry string recovery

2 Configuration and initialization

This section covers the following topics:

•Operating System drivers

•Inquiry string recovery, finding information about the drive through the INQUIRY command

•Additional LUN support, for operation with an autochanger device

•Fibre Channel support

Operating system drivers

Windows	HP have a proprietary driver for Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. It is
	intended that the driver is freely licensed to any software partner that requires it.
	For the latest driver support for HP tape drives, please visit the following HP web
	site: http://www.hp.com/support/ultrium
NetWare	HP has worked with Novell to provide driver support for HP’s Ultrium products.
UNIX	See the UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS Configuration Guide for details of how to
	implement Ultrium support under the popular UNIX flavors.

Inquiry string recovery

HP Ultrium devices should not be recognized solely by the contents of their SCSI INQUIRY strings. In the past, hard-coded recognition of Inquiry strings has meant that software support for follow-on products from HP has been delayed when, to all intents and purposes, the new product was practically identical to the previous generation. For Ultrium, it is recommended that software applications ‘key off’ only the first eight bytes of the Product ID field—the text “Ultrium ”. The only use for the remainder of the bytes in this field is that they will be visible on-screen during the boot process of PC systems. As with HP’s DDS products, there will be very little difference between the first Ultrium drives and succeeding generations in terms of their basic SCSI characteristics; they will just store more data faster.

Standard INQUIRY Page Data	SCSI		SAS		FC
Vendor ID (bytes 8–15)	“HP	”	“HP	”	“HP	”
Product ID (bytes 16–23)	“Ultrium ”		“Ultrium ”		“Ultrium ”
Product ID (bytes 24–31)	“4-SCSI	”	“4-SCSI	”	“4-SCSI	”
Product Revision Level (bytes 32–35)	CRMV		CRMV		CRMV

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