HP LTO Ultrium 6 tape drives UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................4
Purpose of this manual..............................................................................................................4
LTO Ultrium drives in a library................................................................................................4
SAS drives..........................................................................................................................4
Backup applications..................................................................................................................4
2 HP (HP-UX) servers and workstations.............................................................5
Identifying connected devices.....................................................................................................5
For HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 (legacy format)............................................................................5
For 11i v3 (Agile I/O tree view).............................................................................................6
Adding stape/estape and eschgr/schgr (media changer driver) to the kernel...................................7
For HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)........................................................................................................7
For HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31)....................................................................................................8
Add device files.......................................................................................................................9
For HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23)........................................................................................................9
For HP-UX 11i v3 (HP-UX 11.31).............................................................................................10
Using large block sizes............................................................................................................10
What next?............................................................................................................................11
3 HP (OpenVMS) servers and workstations.....................................................12
Determining attached devices...................................................................................................12
What next?............................................................................................................................12
4 Linux servers and workstations....................................................................13
Ensure the correct HBA and driver are installed...........................................................................13
Check the driver modules are loaded in the kernel......................................................................13
Determining the attached devices.............................................................................................14
Using the seek and tell features of mt....................................................................................15
What next?............................................................................................................................16
5 IBM (AIX) servers and workstations.............................................................17
Identifying attached devices.....................................................................................................17
Configuring the device files......................................................................................................17
If you are using a graphics terminal running X-Windows.........................................................17
If you are using a non-graphics terminal................................................................................18
Device filenames under AIX.................................................................................................19
6 Oracle (Solaris) servers and workstations.....................................................21
Fibre Channel drives...............................................................................................................21
Configuring the device files.................................................................................................21
SAS drives.............................................................................................................................21
Identifying attached devices................................................................................................21
Kernel patch levels..................................................................................................................22
HP-data values.......................................................................................................................23
7 Verifying the installation............................................................................25
To verify the installation:..........................................................................................................25
Example...........................................................................................................................26
8 Support and other resources......................................................................27
Related documents..................................................................................................................27
Glossary....................................................................................................28
Index.........................................................................................................29
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