Page 3 - Introduction; Contents
Contents Co nt en ts 3 The purpose of this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Related documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Documents specific to HP...
Page 4 - Verifying the Installation
4 Contents 7 Verifying the Installation Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 To verify the installation: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Example: ....
Page 5 - The purpose of this manual; Documents specific to HP Ultrium drives; Documentation map
The purpose of this manual 5 The purpose of this manual This is one of six volumes that document HP Ultrium drives. This volume provides background information for driver and application developers. The following products are covered. Capacities are when the drive is using data compression with a co...
Page 8 - Ultrium features; General documents and standardization
8 Ultrium features General documents and standardization • Small Computer System Interface (SCSI-1 ) , ANSI X3.131-1986. This is the ANSI authorized standard for SCSI implementation, available through ANSI • Enhanced Small Computer System Interface (SCSI-2), ANSI X3T9.2-1993 Rev. 10L, available thro...
Page 11 - The Purpose of this Manual; Ultrium Drives in a Library; Backup Applications
The Purpose of this Manual In tro du cti on 11 1 Introduction The Purpose of this Manual This manual provides basic information on configuring the drives with various operating systems. Please see the top-level release notes that accompany the drive for expected functionality and features. Ultrium d...
Page 13 - Determining the SCSI ID
HP Servers and Workstations—HP-UX 11.x HP -U X S ys tems 13 2 HP-UX Systems HP Servers and Workstations—HP-UX 11. x NOTE: HP-UX 10.x is only supported by Generation 1 Ultrium drives. Introduction Before you install your tape drive log on to the HP web site, www.hp.com , and download the latest hardw...
Page 14 - Creating the Device Files; To add device files using
HP-UX Systems 14 For an HP Ultrium drive, execute the following: % /sbin/ioscan -f | grep "Ultrium" The new lines should look similar to the following, where the 4 in the I field represents the instance of the SCSI tape driver, not the SCSI ID: tape 4 2/0/1.5.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP Ultriu...
Page 19 - HP Alpha UNIX; xxxx
HP Alpha UNIX 5.x HP A lph a UNI X 19 3 HP Alpha UNIX HP Alpha UNIX 5. xxxx 1. Add the following entry to your /dev/ddr.dbase file: SCSIDEVICE Type = tape Name = “HP” “Ultrium” # PARAMETERS: TypeSubClass = lto # Linear Tape Open BlockSize = 262144 TagQueueDepth = 0 MaxTransferSize = 0xffffff # 16Mb ...
Page 22 - Device Filenames under AIX
IBM (AIX) 22 3. Select from the window: “ change/show characteristics of a tape drive ” 4. From the pop-up window, select “ ost ” or “ Other SCSI tape drive ” as the tape drive you wish to change. Do not choose “ 4mm2gb ”. 5. Change the block size field to 0, and click on the “ DO ” button or press ...
Page 23 - Linux; Configuring on Linux Systems
Determining the SCSI ID (Linux) Lin ux 23 5 Linux Determining the SCSI ID (Linux) Look at the output of dmesg to find out what SCSI channel number is used for each connection. To find out the SCSI IDs in use on each channel, type: cat /proc/scsi/scsi This will produce output similar to the following...
Page 25 - Using the Seek and Tell Features of mt
What Next? Lin ux 25 If you want requests to space to end of data to be faster, you should also enable ST_FAST_MTEOM in the same file. After changing this file, rebuild the modules and install the new binary. At the very least, this requires: make modules make modules_install from the /usr/src/linux...
Page 28 - Configuring the Device Files; for Solaris 8 without st patch:
Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 28 Configuring the Device Files Determine the device file by typing: % ls -l /dev/rmt/*m | grep "st@X" where X is the SCSI ID. Identify the line for the tape drive. For example, if the drive was at SCSI ID 2, look for the line containing “ st@2,0 ”. This might b...
Page 31 - Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX); To verify the installation:
Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX) Ve rif ying the I nst alla tion 31 7 Verifying the Installation Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX) As part of the installation process, you will have installed the appropriate device driver for your UNIX system, and created device files to c...
Page 35 - Glossary
G lo ssa ry 35 Glossary AT&T mode Berkeley and AT&T functional modes differ in “read-only” close functionality. In AT&T mode, a device close operation will cause the tape to be repositioned just after next filemark on the tape (the start of the next file). Berkeley mode Berkeley and AT&a...
Page 39 - Index
Inde x Index 39 A AIX 21 ANSI 5 asynchronous data transfer 35 AT&T mode 35 B Berkeley mode 35 BOT 35 buffered mode 35 C compression 35 confirming installation 31 D data transfer 35 device files AIX 22 HP-UX 14 IBM (AIX) 21 Sun workstations 28 direct access 38 documents, related 5 F fast SCSI 37 ...
