User`s guide

ADD TAPE

Note

This command is valid for HSJ and HSD controllers only.

Adds a tape drive to the list of known tape drives.

Format

ADD TAPE

device-name SCSI-location

Parameters

device-name

Speciﬁes the name that is used to refer to this tape drive. This name is referred

to when creating units. The name must start with a letter (A–Z) and can then

consist of up to eight more characters made up of letters A–Z, numbers 0–9,

periods (.), dashes (-), or underscores (_), for a total of nine characters.

SCSI-location

The location of the tape drive to be added in the form PTL where P designates

the port (1–6 or 1–3, depending on the controller model), T designates the target

ID of the device, (0–6, in a nonfailover conﬁguration, or 0–5 if the controller is in

a failover conﬁguration), and L designates the LUN of the device (must be 0).

When entering the PTL, at least one space must separate the the port, target,

and LUN numbers.

Description

Adds a tape drive to the list of known tape drives and names the drive. This

command must be used when a new SCSI–2 tape drive is to be added to the

conﬁguration.

Examples

CLI> ADD TAPE TAPE0 1 0 0

Adds a tape drive to port 1, target 0, LUN 0 and names it TAPE0.

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