Generation 3 drives

HP Ultrium tape drives Technical reference manual

Volume 5—Unix configuration guide

Part number: Q1538–90925 Volume 5 Edition 6.1, December 2004

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HP Ultrium Tape Drive manual Generation 3 drives

Contents

Generation 3 drives Version Date Changes Contents Verifying the Installation Related documents Purpose of this manualDocuments specific to HP Ultrium drives Documentation map Drives-general Interface General documents and standardization How error correction works Irvine, CA Tel 800 854 7179 or 714 261Page Introduction Backup ApplicationsUltrium Drives in a Library Introduction HP-UX AIX HP Servers and Workstations-HP-UX HP-UX SystemsIntroduction Determining the Scsi ID HP-UX Systems For an HP Ultrium drive, execute the following Creating the Device FilesSelect the following Where When you have exited sam, run ioscan to see the tape drive Run insf as follows To create a device file with the following characteristics What Next? For compressed mode defaultHardware path can be found from previous ioscan output HP-UX Systems HP Alpha Unix HP Alpha UnixHP Alpha Unix Add the following entry to your /dev/ddr.dbase file What Next? Determining the Scsi ID Configuring the Device FilesThis will produce output that looks similar to Device Filenames under AIX Linux Configuring on Linux SystemsDetermining the Scsi ID Linux Linux This should find a number of lines. One should look like Where /dev/stp is the device file Using the Seek and Tell Features of mt Linux Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9 Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9This will produce output similar to the following This produces a list similar to Ls -l /dev/rmt/*m grep st@X Determine the device file by typing When the system is down, reboot Do a reconfigure bootHP-Data Values Specifies the Scsi ID target of the device Values for the parameters for name are as followsSpecifies the LUN for the device Verifying the Installation of the Drive Unix Verifying the InstallationTo verify the installation Verifying the Installation Read the file back from tape File The name of the file to archive, prefixed with ‘./’ Change to the temporary directory Compare the original with the restored versionExtract the file from the tape Verifying the Installation Glossary Glossary Fibre Channel switching technology Response to a filemark commandFeatures required by that standard Point-to-point connection between itself and the fabric Glossary Glossary Index IndexAIX Index