HP LTO Ultrium 5 tape drives UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide (March 2010)

Contents

1 Introduction ....................................................................................... 6

Purpose of this manual ................................................................................................................ 6

LTO Ultrium drives in a library ................................................................................................ 6

SAS drives ........................................................................................................................... 6

Backup applications .................................................................................................................... 6

2 HP (HP-UX) servers and workstations ..................................................... 7

Identifying connected devices ....................................................................................................... 7

For HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 (legacy format) .......................................................................... 7

For 11i v3 (Agile I/O tree view) ............................................................................................. 8

Adding stape/estape and eschgr/schgr (media changer driver) to the kernel ..................................... 9

For HP-UX 11i v2 ................................................................................................................. 9

For HP-UX 11iv3 (11.31) .............................................................................................. 11

Add device files ........................................................................................................................ 12

For HP-UX 11i v2 ............................................................................................................... 12

For HP-UX 11i v3 (HP-UX 11.31) .......................................................................................... 13

What next? .............................................................................................................................. 14

3 HP (OpenVMS) servers and workstations ............................................. 15

Determining attached devices ..................................................................................................... 15

What next? .............................................................................................................................. 15

4 Linux servers and workstations ........................................................... 17

Ensure the correct HBA and driver are installed ............................................................................. 17

Check the driver modules are loaded in the kernel ........................................................................ 17

Determining the attached devices ................................................................................................ 18

Using the seek and tell features of mt .................................................................................... 19

What next? .............................................................................................................................. 19

5 IBM (AIX) servers and workstations ..................................................... 21

Identifying attached devices ....................................................................................................... 21

Configuring the device files ........................................................................................................ 21

If you are using a graphics terminal running X-Windows .......................................................... 21

If you are using a non-graphics terminal ................................................................................ 22

Device filenames under AIX ................................................................................................. 24

6 Sun (Solaris) servers and workstations ................................................. 25

Fibre Channel drives ................................................................................................................. 25

Configuring the device files ................................................................................................. 25

SAS drives ............................................................................................................................... 25

Identifying attached devices ................................................................................................. 25

Kernel patch levels .................................................................................................................... 26

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