HP LTO Ultrium 5 tape drives UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide (March 2010)

3 HP (OpenVMS) servers and workstations
NOTE:
SAS drives are not supported on Alpha Server systems.
Determining attached devices
After connecting the tape drive to your system, boot OpenVMS and check for the presence of the
new tape device. Execute the following commands.
For FC drives, first:
$mc sysman io find
$mc sysman io auto
Then, for all drives:
$mc sysman io find
$mc sysman io auto
$ sho dev mk
Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt
Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt
MKA400: Online 0
^use this value in the next command line
$ sho dev MKA400/full
Magtape SIT058$MKD300:, device type HP Ultrium 5-SCSI, is
online, file-oriented device, available to cluster, error
logging is enabled, controller supports compaction (compaction
disabled), device supports fastskip (per_io).
Error count 0 Operations completed 0
Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W
Reference count 0 Default buffer size 2048
Density default Format Normal-11
Volume status: no-unload on dismount, beginning-of-tape, odd parity.
What next?
You are now ready to begin using your tape drive. Please consult your OpenVMS system documentation
for details.
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