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