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

HP Evolution II DDS/DAT drives: UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide 9
2 HP (HP-UX) servers and workstations
This chapter covers:
• HP servers and workstations: HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11), 11i v2 (11.23)
• HP servers: HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31)
NOTE: Only SCSI tape drives and autoloaders are supported on HP-UX.
Introduction
Before you install your tape drive log on to the HP web site, www.hp.com, and download the latest
hardware enablement (HWE) patch bundle for your operating system. This ensures that you will
have the correct device driver for your tape drive.
System Administration Management (SAM) tools have evolved with ongoing HP-UX version releases.
As a result, the procedures for setting up with different HP-UX versions differ. They are described
separately in this chapter.
HP-UX11i v3 and agile addressing
HP-UX11i v3 introduces agile addressing of devices. Agile addressing uses a different format of the
device special file (dsf) to represent the tape drive—known as a persistent dsf. However HP-UX11i v3
retains support for the legacy dsf format as used in HP-UX11i v1 and 11i v2.
For more information about HP-UX releases including HP-UX11i v3 please refer to
www.docs.hp.com
.
Determining a suitable SCSI ID
The tape drive SCSI ID setting must be unique for the SCSI bus to which the drive is attached. Often
the drive will be the only device on the bus
1
in which case the default SCSI ID of 3 is suitable. See
the drive’s User Guide for details of how to physically alter the SCSI ID setting (usually accessible at
the rear panel of the drive).
Scan the system to list the existing devices attached. From a shell window (
hpterm/xterm), execute
ioscan as shown below:
For HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2 and 11i v3 (legacy format)
% /sbin/ioscan –f
The output should look similar to the following:
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
========================================================================
root 0 root CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS
ioa 0 0 sba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS System Bus Adapter (880)
ba 0 0/0 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI-X Bus Adapter (783)
1. Note that HP does not support disk drives and tape drives sharing the same SCSI bus.