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Chapter 7. Direct attached Fibre Channel devices partition to virtual Fibre Channel 155
The steps required to accomplish this are covered in the following section.
On the client partition: part 1
On the client logical partition, perform the following steps:
1. Identify which Fibre Channel card and port is being used by the tape device.
The following AIX commands show how to trace from the rmt0 device back to
the parent adapter using the lsdev command:
# lsdev -C | grep fcs
fcs0 Available 00-08 FC Adapter
fcs1 Available 00-09 FC Adapter
# lsdev -l rmt0 -F parent
fscsi1
# lsdev -l fscsi1 -F parent
fcs1
#
2. On the client logical partition, ensure that no processes are using the tape
drive. Stop applications such as Tivoli Storage Manager since they will
prevent removal of the devices.
3. Make a note of the tape drives and possibly the tape library’s serial numbers.
This can be accomplished using the AIX tapeutil utility (which is installed
when the AIX Atape device driver is installed and is available for download
from the IBM Storage support Web site www.storage.ibm.com. Select
Enterprise or Midrange tape category  Product Details  Product
Support  Download  Device Drivers).
After opening the tape device using tapeutil, issue an inquiry and select
inquiry page 83 as follows:
Enter Selection for /dev/rmt0: 5
Enter page code in hex or <enter> for standard inquiry: 83
Issuing inquiry for page 0x83...
Inquiry Page 0x83, Length 74
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 0123456789ABCDEF
0000 - 0183 0046 0201 0022 4942 4D20 2020 2020 [..F..."IBM ]
0010 - 554C 5433 3538 302D 5444 3420 2020 2020 [ULT3580-TD4 ]
0020 - 3133 3130 3032 3535 3138 0183 0008 2001 [1310025518... .]
0030 - 000E 1110 E588 0194 0004 0000 0001 0193 [....å........]
0040 - 0008 2002 000E 1110 E588 [.. .....å ]