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

3. A pop-up window is displayed:
Select the tape drive you wish to change. The example above shows an LTO FC tape drive as
available for selection.
4. The following details are displayed:
Check the following values and change them if necessary:
• BLOCK Size (0=variable length)= 0
• Use EXTENDED file marks = “no”
• RESERVE/RELEASE support = “yes”
• Set timeout for the READ or WRITE command = 1200
Click on the “OK” button to apply the changes.
If you are using a non-graphics terminal
1. At the command line type:
nl
% smit -C tape
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