HP DDS/DAT tape drives UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide (DW049-90930, May 2010)

4 HP (Tru64 5.1x) servers and workstations

NOTE:

Only SCSI drives and autoloaders are supported on HP Alpha Tru64 systems. DAT 320 drives are

not supported.

Updating the tape driver

NOTE:

DDS-4 and DAT 72 drives are natively supported on HP Alpha Tru64 v5.1B-2 and above. DAT 160

drives are natively supported on HP Alpha Tru64 V5.1B-3. Steps 1–3 below are only required for

earlier versions of Tru64.

1. Versions of Tru64 before v5.1B-2 only (v5.1B-3 for DAT 160 drives):

Modify the SCSI Tape Density Table in the /etc/ddr.dbase file to include:

scsi_tape_density[0x48] = "174500_bpi " 174500 0 (DAT160)

scsi_tape_density[0x47] = "163000_bpi " 163000 0 (DAT72)

scsi_tape_density[0x26] = "97000_bpi " 97000 0

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