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

5 IBM (AIX) servers and workstations

For supported versions of AIX, see http://www.hp.com/go/connect.

Identifying attached devices

For SAS, to list existing devices, use the following:

% lsdev -C |grep SAS

This produces output similar to:

hdisk0 Available 00-08-00 SAS Disk Drive

hdisk1 Available 00-08-00 SAS Disk Drive

rmt0 Defined 03-08-00 Other SAS Tape Drive

sas0 Available 00-08-00 Controller SAS Protocol

sas1 Available 03-08-00 Controller SAS Protocol

ses0 Available 00-08-00 SAS Enclosure Services Device

ses1 Available 00-08-00 SAS Enclosure Services Device

ses2 Available 00-08-00 SAS Enclosure Services Device

sissas0 Available 00-08 PCI-X266 Planar 3Gb SAS Adapter

sissas1 Available 03-08 PCI-X266 Ext Dual-x4 3Gb SAS Adapter

Configuring the device files

Reboot the server/workstation with the tape drive attached and powered on.

If you are using a graphics terminal running X-Windows

1. At a Windows terminal, type:

smit tape

2. The following window is displayed:

Select “change/show characteristics of a tape drive”

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