Page 3 - Contents
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 3 HP restricted Related documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Documents specific to HP Ultrium drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
Page 5 - Related documents; Documents specific to HP Ultrium drives; Documentation map; Drives—general
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 5 HP restricted Related documents The following documents provide additional information: Documents specific to HP Ultrium drives • Hardware Integration Guide , volume 1 of the HP Ultrium Technical Reference Manual • So...
Page 6 - Operation
6 HP restricted Operation Cartridges Interface Optimizing performance (SCSI only) 1 HW Integration: ch. 8 n/a 2 SW Integration: ch. 4 UNIX configuration 5 UNIX Config SCSI Drives FC Drives External drives (SCSI only) 1 HW Integration: ch. 5 n/a In Libraries 1 HW Integration: ch. 1 In Servers (SCSI o...
Page 7 - Maintenance and troubleshooting
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 7 HP restricted Maintenance and troubleshooting Dealing with errors Ultrium features Responding to Sense Keys and ASC/Q 2 SW Integration: ch. 6 Sense Keys and ASC/Q —see REQUEST SENSE command 3 SCSI: ch. 4 SCSI Drives F...
Page 8 - General documents and standardization
8 HP restricted General documents and standardization See http://www.t10.org/t10_main.htm for INCITS SCSI Primary Commands—3 (SPC-3) and other specificationsCopies of documents of other standards bodies can be obtained from: Cartridge Memory (LTO-CM)s 1 HW Integration: ch. 2 2 SW Integration: ch. 5 ...
Page 9 - Introduction; Purpose of this manual; Ultrium drives in a library; Backup applications
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 9 HP restricted 1 Introduction Purpose of this manual This manual provides basic information on configuring the drives with various operating systems.See the top-level release notes that accompany the drive for expected...
Page 11 - Adding stape and schgr (autoloader driver) to the kernel using sam
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 11 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 ...
Page 13 - Add device files using sam
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 13 3. Highlight the s t a p e or s c h g r driver. If the driver has not been added to the kernel, both Current State and Pending State will read “Out”. 4. Select the following: A c t i o n s A d d D r i v e r t o K e r...
Page 15 - HP alpha UNIX
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 15 HP restricted 3 HP alpha UNIX HP alpha UNIX 5. x 1. Add the following entry to your / d e v / d d r . d b a s e file: S C S I D E V I C E T y p e = t a p e N a m e = “ H P ” “ U l t r i u m ” # P A R A M E T E R S : ...
Page 17 - Determining the SCSI ID; Configuring the device files
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 17 HP restricted 4 IBM (AIX) Determining the SCSI ID Before you configure your system to support Ultrium drives, determine which SCSI ID to use. IDs must be unique for each device attached to the SCSI bus. To list exist...
Page 18 - Device filenames under AIX
IBM (AIX) 18 HP restricted Once device files have been created, you should confirm that your new tape drive is working properly. Chapter 7 on page 27 provides instructions on backing up and restoring a sample file to test your installation. Device filenames under AIX Use device filenames as listed b...
Page 19 - Linux; Configuring on Linux systems
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 19 HP restricted 5 Linux Determining the SCSI ID (Linux) Look at the output of d m e s g to find out what SCSI channel number is used for each connection. To find out the SCSI IDs in use on each channel, type: c a t / p...
Page 20 - Using the seek and tell features of mt
Linux 20 HP restricted NOTE: To add drivers to the statically built kernel you need the Linux source code available on disk and knowledge of how to use the kernel building tools that ship with various Linux distributions. This should not be attempted by novice users. In order to determine if the dri...
Page 23 - Configuring the Device Files
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 23 HP restricted 6 Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 Determining the SCSI ID Before you configure your system to support an HP Ultrium drive, determine which SCSI ID to use. IDs must be unique for each device on attached to...
Page 24 - for Solaris 8 without st patch:
Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 24 HP restricted If for some reason you cannot upgrade to the minimum patch level, you can make the following file modifications to enhance performance: 1. In the file / k e r n e l / d r v / s t . c o n f , after these lines: # # # # # # # ## C o p y r i g h t ( c ) 1 ...
Page 27 - Verifying the Installation; Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX); To verify the installation:
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 27 HP restricted 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 d...
Page 28 - Example
Verifying the Installation 28 HP restricted NOTE: Make sure you prefix the file name with ‘ . ’ when you back it up to tape. If you do not, the restore operation in step 3 will overwrite the original copy on disk. 3. Read the file back from tape: % c d / t m p % t a r x v f < d e v i c e f i l e ...
Page 29 - Glossary
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 29 HP restricted 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...
Page 33 - Index
HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 33 HP restricted Index A AIX 17 ANSI 5 asynchronous data transfer 29 AT&T mode 29 B Berkeley mode 29 BOT 29 buffered mode 29 C compression 29 confirming installation 27 D data transfer 29 device files AIX 18 IBM (AI...
