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

2. Select the following:

Peripheral Devices > Tape Drives

sam will then scan the system for any tape drives connected.

For example, when an HP LTO Ultrium 5 drive is found, for example, it will be displayed as

something like:

Hardware Path Driver Description

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

8/0/2/0.3.0 stape HP Ultrium 5-SCSI

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 of most applications:

cXtYdZBESTnb = Berkeley, no rewind, best available density

cXtYdZBESTb = Berkeley, with rewind, best available density

where:

X = card number

Y = target number

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 11), select Manage Peripheral Devices from

the Peripheral Devices section.

3. Select tape from the Class drop-down box on the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool page. Select the

tape device (radio button) requiring device files from the resulting list. If device files are not

already present this will be indicated under the Properties header (see Figure 5)

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

Depending on how SMH was last used the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool page will display either the Agile View or the Legacy

View as described at the beginning of this chapter. To switch between these views use the Toggle Global Device View link on

the right hand side of the HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool page. In this chapter, the Agile View is assumed. The process is similar

for the Legacy View.

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