LTO 4 FC, SCSI and SAS drives
volume 2 software integration
HP LTO Ultrium tape drives technical reference manual
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 Legal and notice information
 1 Designing backup applications
Contents
2 Configuration and initialization
3 Use of tapes
 4 Factors affecting performance
5 Supporting Ultrium features
 7 Exception handling
6 Sense keys and codes
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 Documentation map
Related documents
Documents specific to HP Ultrium drives
Drives-general
 Operation
Installation and configuration
Cartridges
Interface
 Dealing with errors
Maintenance and troubleshooting
 General documents and standardization
LTO Ultrium features
 Non-immediate commands
1 Designing backup applications
Optimizing performance
Large data transfer size
 Managing the use of tapes
Cleaning tape heads
Information in Cartridge Memory
Monitoring tape use
 Diagnostic logs
Design goals for LTO backup applications
TapeAlert
Displaying drive information
 Include the capability to download firmware
 Operating system drivers
2 Configuration and initialization
Inquiry string recovery
 SCSI protocol, regardless of transport or interface type
Example
16 Configuration and initialization
 Supporting additional LUNs
Support for additional LUN
Enabling additional LUN support
 18 Configuration and initialization
 Using MODE SENSE
Using Cartridge Memory attributes
3 Use of tapes
LTO cartridge memory
 Interpreting Log Sense data
Tape status and capacity
Finding the remaining capacity
 CDB fields
Using the SET CAPACITY command
Command descriptor block
 WORM media
Changes to SCSI commands
How WORM media works
New additional sense codes and TapeAlert flags
 ERASE commands rejected
Error Usage page
SET CAPACITY command
Re-writing media labels
 Unique media identifier
Using CM to check tape integrity
Behavior with a missing or inconsistent EOD value
 Barcode support
Responding to Cartridge Memory data
Load count
 Corrective action
RWW retry counts
 Ways of optimizing performance
4 Factors affecting performance
Detecting the drive’s speed
Ensuring the recommended minimum transfer sizes
 Using the Performance Log page for diagnosing problems
Using Cartridge Memory instead of tape headers
Time-out values
Media type identification
 Host-related factors
Recommended support of log pages
Factors affecting performance
 Recommendation
Example
where possible or a reasonably sized RAID system. More disks means
makes sense to split heavily used FC cards across separate PCI busses
 Do not interleave write commands with other commands, such as  READ
Drive-related factors
 Format-related factors
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 34 Factors affecting performance
 Cartridge Memory LTO-CM
5 Supporting Ultrium features
Automation interface
Further information
 Automation/Device Interface ADI
 Slave to a library controller
Automation Control Interface ACI
Modes of usage through ACI
 SCSI pass-through mode
ACI command set
ACI commands that affect drive streaming performance
 Backward compatibility
New features in ACI
 SCSI command
 Encryption support
 Supporting the ACI protocol
Further details
Recommended ACI time-out values
42 Supporting Ultrium features
 Treatment of reserved fields
Recommended power-up sequence
 Recommended load-unload configuration
 Recommended Get Drive Status polling frequency
Firmware upgrade via tape
ACI protocol communications retry
Upgrading the drive firmware
 Firmware upgrade via ACI
Firmware upgrade via the primary host interface
Library firmware upgrade via tape
Handling irregular cartridges
 Expired cleaning cartridge HP-configured or Universal
Cleaning cartridge HP-configured or Universal
Non-HP Ultrium 1 cleaning cartridge
Unreadable data cartridge
 Data cartridge with unreadable CM
Valid firmware upgrade cartridge
Cartridge fails to seat or load
Cartridge cannot be loaded
 Cleaning
Frequently asked questions
Invalid firmware upgrade cartridge
Is there separate firmware for drives intended to go into libraries?
 Resetting drives
Backup software
Resetting via the ACI Reset command
Resetting using the ACIRSTL line
 Controlling data compression
Accessing Cartridge Memory without threading the tape
Other mode page information
Buffer size at EW-EOM
 Write delay time
Rewind on reset
Partition size
52 Supporting Ultrium features
 Sense keys-actions to take
6 Sense keys and codes
Action
Console Message
 For additional sense codes, see   “3h-MEDIUM  ERROR” on
“3h-MEDIUM ERROR” on page 62 . Also see the Media Access
log the error, terminate I/O to the drive, and pass the appropriate
error to the calling application
 Console Message
Action
Action
Console Message
 Action
 Physical
Additional sense codes-actions to take
End-of-Tape
reached, unable to fit
 0h-NO SENSE
 2h-NOT READY
1h-RECOVERED ERROR
 LUN not accessible, port in
The software must issue a  LOAD before media access
The command cannot be executed because the specified
60 Sense keys and codes
 mechanism tests are being executed. When the tests are
 62 Sense keys and codes
3h-MEDIUM ERROR
A READ , SPACE , WRITE  or WRITE FILEMARKS  command
 and the drive. Based on this, ask the user to clean the
Send a console message that an unrecovered error on
 64 Sense keys and codes
 Send a message to the console indicating that there is
 66 Sense keys and codes
The current command such as  READ,  SPACE,  REWIND
 4h-HW ERROR
 68 Sense keys and codes
5h-ILLEGAL REQUEST
A  MODE SELECT parameter list sent to the drive contains
 persistent reservation using the  PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT
6h-UNIT ATTENTION
allowed to execute. In other words, some commands can
32 initiators to register, using  PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT
 Action
 A PERSISTENT RESERVE OUT command was executed
service action removed all reservations and the persistent
WRITE BUFFER or MAINTENANCE OUT command
A SET DEVICE IDENTIFIER command has been successful
 7h-DATA PROTECTION
 Action
 8h-BLANK CHECK
 related to a missing EOD data set. The most likely cause
Bh-ABORTED COMMAND
READ BUFFER command
 76 Sense keys and codes
Dh-VOLUME OVERFLOW
A  WRITE or  WRITE FILEMARKS command has encountered
 1. Retrieve fault information
Typical escalation procedure
3. Allow the user to try recovery
4. Allow the user to reset devices
 Supporting TapeAlert
Monitoring the condition of the drive and media
 Type
Flags
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 TapeAlert models
Designing software to use the TapeAlert log
 TapeAlert informational exception usage model
Reading the TapeAlert log
TapeAlert polling usage model
 Supporting OBDR
One-Button Disaster Recovery OBDR
Responding to the ‘Clean’ LED
 Requirements for drivers and logical device managers
Providing pass-through mode
 Glossary
 see ”read-while-write”
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