HP C7401A - SureStore Ultrium 230 Tape Drive Produkthandbuch

unix

configuration

guide

hp ultrium drives

technical reference manual

generation 1 SCSI drives

volume 5: unix configuration guide

Part Number: C7369–90901 Volume 5

Edition 5, February 2003

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Version Date Changed Pages

Edition 1 Feb 2001 All

Edition 2 Mar 2002 Reordering. Removal of pass-through functionality. Changes to HP

chapter (update of ioscan output, use of sam to add stape and device

files), Linux chapter (use of sam to add device files), Sun chapter (using

seek and tell), verification chapter (<archive name> changed to <device

file>

Edition 4 Jun 2002 Updated for Generation 2 Ultrium drives. Now only includes supported

and tested platforms. Extra information added to HP-UX, Sun and Linux

chapters.

Edition 5 Feb 2003 Support Silicon Graphics and Tru64 removed. Other minor changes.

Generation 1 version.

This document is frequently revised and updated. To find out if there is a

later version, please ask your HP OEM Representative.

Related Documents

The following documents provide additional information:

Documents Specific to HP Ultrium Drives

3Software Integration Guide, volume 2 of the HP Ultrium Technical

Reference Manual

3The SCSI Interface, volume 3 of the HP Ultrium Technical Reference

Manual

3Specifications, volume 4 of the HP Ultrium Technical Reference Manual

3HP Ultrium Configuration Guide, volume 5 of the HP Ultrium Technical

Reference Manual

3Background to Ultrium Drives, volume 6 of the HP Ultrium Technical

Reference Manual

3HP Ultrium Technology White Paper, which describes the features and

benefits of HP Ultrium drives

Please contact your HP supplier for copies.

Documentation Map

The following will help you locate information in the 6-volume Technical

Reference Manual:

Drives—general

Installation and Configuration

Connectors 1HW Integration: ch. 5

Controller architecture 6Background: ch. 4

Front Panel LEDs 1HW Integration: ch. 4

Mechanism and hardware 6Background: ch. 3

Specifications 4Specs

Connectors 1HW Integration: ch. 5

Determining the configuration 2SW Integration: ch. 2

In Libraries 1HW Integration: ch. 1

Operation

Cartridges

Interface

Maintenance and Troubleshooting

In Servers 1HW Integration: ch. 3

Modes of Usage 1HW Integration: ch. 6

Optimizing performance 1HW Integration: ch. 6

2SW Integration: ch. 4

UNIX configuration 5UNIX Config

In Libraries 1HW Integration: ch. 1

In Servers 1HW Integration: ch. 3

Cartridge Memory (LTO-CM) 2SW Integration: ch. 5

6HW Integration: ch. 5

Cartridges 1HW Integration: ch. 7

Features 6HW Integration: ch. 5

Managing the use of cartridges 2SW Integration: ch. 1

Use of cartridges 2SW Integration: ch. 3

SCSI Guide 3SCSI

Commands 3SCSI: ch. 4

Error codes 1HW Integration: ch. 8

Implementation 3SCSI: ch. 1

Interpreting sense data 2SW Integration: ch. 3

Messages 3SCSI: ch. 2

Mode pages—see the MODE SENSE command 3SCSI: ch. 4

Pre-execution checks 3SCSI: ch. 3

Responding to Sense Keys and ASC/Q 2SW Integration: ch. 6

Sense Keys and ASC/Q—see REQUEST SENSE command 3SCSI: ch. 4

Cleaning 2SW Integration: ch. 5

2SW Integration: ch. 7

In Libraries 1HW Integration: ch. 1

In Servers 1HW Integration: ch. 3

Dealing with Errors

Ultrium Features

General Documents and Standardization

3For a general backgrounder on LTO technology and licensing, go to

http://www.lto-technology.com.

Monitoring drive and tape condition 2SW Integration: ch. 7

Software troubleshooting techniques 2SW Integration: ch. 1

Error Codes 1HW Integration: ch. 8

Handling errors 2SW Integration: ch. 5

How error correction works 6Background: ch. 4

Logs—see the LOG SENSE command 3SCSI: ch. 4

Recovering from write and read errors 2SW Integration: ch. 7

Software response to error correction 2SW Integration: ch. 3

Software response to logs 2SW Integration: ch. 3

TapeAlert log 2SW Integration: ch. 7

Adaptive Tape Speed (ATS) 6Background: ch. 1

Autoload 1HW Integration: ch. 2

Automation Control Interface (ACI) 1HW Integration: ch. 2

6Background: ch. 1

Cartridge Memory (LTO-CM)s 1HW Integration: ch. 2

2SW Integration: ch. 5

6HW Integration: ch. 5

Data Compression, how it works 6Background: ch. 5

Data Compression, managing 2SW Integration: ch. 5

Design principles 6Background: ch. 1

OBDR and CD-ROM emulation 6Background: ch. 1

2SW Integration: ch. 7

Performance optimization 1HW Integration: ch. 6

2SW Integration: ch. 1

Performance, factors affecting 2SW Integration: ch. 4

Software design 2SW Integration: ch. 1

Supporting Ultrium features 2SW Integration: ch. 5

Ultrium Format 6Background: ch. 2

3Small Computer System Interface (SCSI-1), ANSI X3.131-1986. This is the

ANSI authorized standard for SCSI implementation, available through

ANSI

3Enhanced Small Computer System Interface (SCSI-2), ANSI X3T9.2-1993

Rev. 10L, available through ANSI

3Information Technology — SCSI Parallel Interface-3 (SPI-3), T10 Project

1302D, Working Draft Revision 14

Copies of General Documents can be obtained from:

ANSI 11 West 42nd Street

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Tel: +41 22 849 6000

Web URL: http://www.ecma.ch

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Irvine, CA 92714

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Tel: 800 854 7179 or 714 261 1455

Contents 7

Contents Related Documents 3

Documents Specific to HP Ultrium Drives 3

Documentation Map 3

General Documents and Standardization 5

1Introduction 9

The Purpose of this Manual 9

Ultrium Drives in a Library 9

2HP-UX Systems 11

HP Servers and Workstations

HP-UX 10.x and 11.x 11

Introduction 11

Determining the SCSI ID 11

Creating the Device Files 13

What Next? 16

3IBM (AIX) 17

Determining the SCSI ID 17

Configuring the Device Files 17

Device Filenames under AIX 18

4Linux 21

Determining the SCSI ID (Linux) 21

Configuring on Linux Systems 21

Using the Seek and Tell Features of mt 23

What Next? 23

contents

8Contents

5Sun Systems, Solaris (SunOS 5.x) 25

Determining the SCSI ID 25

Configuring the Device Files 26

HP-Data Values 27

6Verifying the Installation 31

Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX) 31

To verify the installation: 31

Glossary 35

Index 39

Introduction 9

Introduction

The Purpose of this Manual

This manual provides basic information on configuring the drives with various

operating systems.

Please see the top-level release notes that accompany the drive for expected

functionality and features.

Ultrium drives are supported on the following platforms:

3HP UNIX systems (HP-UX) (Chapter 2)

3IBM (AIX) (Chapter 3)

3Linux (Chapter 4)

3Sun Systems, Solaris 2 (SunOS 5.x) (Chapter 5)

For platforms not mentioned here, please contact HP because there may be

new connectivity details available that arrived after the release notes were

published.

See Chapter 6 for details of how to verify the installation.

Ultrium Drives in a Library

Ultrium drives may also be used in a library. However, instructions about

installing device drivers for automatic robotics are not included in this

manual.

10 Introduction

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