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

5. On the Modify Kernel Module: estape page, for Next Boot State, select the “static” radio button.
Check the box entitled Backup to create a backup copy of the existing kernel:
Figure 4 Adding estape driver to the kernel
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6. If you wish, type in a Reason for Change, such as “Initial estape installation May
1st 2007” and then select the Modify tab.
7. Click the OK button at the Operation Successful page. Both estape and stape drivers will now
be shown with Next Boot State as “static”.
8. For media changers, use a similar procedure to prepare the eschgr (with schgr) module.
9. From the right-hand panel on the Kernel Configuration page, click View Pending Changes and
reboot and proceed to reboot the system as directed.
10. Following the reboot ,re-run SMH and search again for the driver as in step 3 above. Current
State and Next Boot State should both be listed as “static”.
Add device files
For HP-UX 11i v2
Use the sam utility to create device files. sam runs as a mouse-driven GUI (see Figure 1 on page 10)
on a system with full graphics capability, or as a console text-based interface (see Figure 2 on page 10).
If you use the text-based interface, use the Tab and arrow keys to navigate, and the Return key to
select.
1. Enter sam at the command line:
% sam
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