HP DDS/DAT drives UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide (DW049-90915, November 2009)

HP (HP-UX) servers and workstations16

For example, when an HP DAT160 drive is found, it will be displayed as something like:

Hardware Path Driver Description

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

8/0/2/0.3.0 stape HP DAT160

3. Highlight the drive and select the following from the tool bar:

Actions

Create Device Files

Create Default Device Files

This will create default device files for the drive. To view the device files that have been created,

select:

Actions

Create Device Files

Show Device Files

4. When you have exited sam, run ioscan to see the tape drive:

%/sbin/ioscan –fnC tape

All default device files displayed have compression enabled.

NOTE: HP recommends the ‘Berkeley’ device files for most applications:

cXtYdZBESTnb = Berkeley, no rewind, best available density

cXtYdZBESTb = Berkeley, with rewind, best available density

where:

X = card number

Y = target number (drive SCSI ID)

Z = LUN number

For HP-UX 11i v3 (HP-UX 11. 31)

1. Start up the SMH web-based interface:

% smh –w

This will attempt to launch a web browser. Mozilla browser

is the default when HP-UX 11i v3 is

installed.

2. From the SMH Tools page (see Figure 3 on page 14), select Manage Peripheral Devices from the

Peripheral Devices section.

1. If Mozilla is being invoked for the first time you may be asked to agree to license terms for the software.