- Hewlett-Packard Desktop PC Owner's Guide

Using Your Digital Data Storage (DDS) Tape Drive

Operating the DDS Tape Drive

Verifying the DDS Tape Drive Operation

To verify that your workstation can communicate with the DDS-format tape

drive, if you are using HP-UX 9.05, enter the following:

/etc/ioscan -d scsi

After a few moments the ioscan utility returns a message similar to the fol-

lowing:

H/W Path Description Status

======================================

2.0.1.3.0 tape_drive ok(nnnnnnnnn)

If you are using HP-UX 10.0, enter the following:

/usr/sbin/ioscan -d stape

After a few moments the ioscan utility returns a message similar to the fol-

lowing:

H/W Path Class Description

============================================

8 bc I/O Adapter

8/16 ba Core I/O Adapter

8/16/5 ext_bus Built-in SCSI

8/16/5.3 target

8/16/5.3.0 tape HP HP35480A

If ioscan does not see your tape drive it will return the following message:

ioscan: No hardware found

If you receive this message, go to Chapter 6, “Solving Problems.”