HP DDS/DAT tape drives UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide (DW049-90930, May 2010)

Contents

1 Introduction ....................................................................................... 6

Purpose of this manual ................................................................................................................ 6

SAS drives ........................................................................................................................... 6

Backup applications .................................................................................................................... 6

2 HP (HP-UX) servers and workstations ..................................................... 7

Identifying connected devices ....................................................................................................... 7

For HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 (legacy format) .......................................................................... 7

For 11i v3 (Agile I/O tree view) ............................................................................................. 8

Adding stape/estape and eschgr/schgr (media changer driver) to the kernel ..................................... 9

For HP-UX 11i v2 ................................................................................................................. 9

For HP-UX 11iv3 (11.31) .............................................................................................. 10

Add device files ........................................................................................................................ 12

For HP-UX 11i v2 ............................................................................................................... 12

For HP-UX 11i v3 (HP-UX 11.31) .......................................................................................... 13

Using large block sizes .............................................................................................................. 14

Configuring an autoloader ......................................................................................................... 14

What next? .............................................................................................................................. 15

3 HP (OpenVMS) servers and workstations ............................................. 17

Determining attached devices ..................................................................................................... 17

Configuring an autoloader on OpenVMS and MRU ...................................................................... 17

Verifying the configuration of an autoloader on OpenVMS and MRU .............................................. 18

What next? .............................................................................................................................. 18

4 HP (Tru64 5.1x) servers and workstations ............................................ 19

Updating the tape driver ............................................................................................................ 19

Configuring an autoloader ......................................................................................................... 22

What next? .............................................................................................................................. 22

5 IBM (AIX) servers and workstations ..................................................... 23

Identifying attached devices ....................................................................................................... 23

Configuring the device files ........................................................................................................ 23

If you are using a graphics terminal running X-Windows .......................................................... 23

If you are using a non-graphics terminal ................................................................................ 25

Device filenames under AIX ................................................................................................. 27

6 Linux (kernel 2.6x) servers and workstations ......................................... 29

Ensure the correct HBA and driver are installed ............................................................................. 29

Check the driver modules are loaded in the kernel ........................................................................ 29

Determining the attached devices ................................................................................................ 30

Using the seek and tell features of mt .................................................................................... 31

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