HP EH890-90900 Product manual

HP LTO Ultrium tape drives technical reference
manual
Volume 5: UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS
configuration guide
LTO 5 drives
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Abstract
This is one of five volumes that document HP LTO Ultrium 5 tape drives (Fibre Channel and SAS). This volume
provides basic information on configuring the drives with various operating systems. See Chapter 8 on page
35 for details of the other guides.
Part Number: EH890–90900 volume 5
Third edition: April 2010

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Contents
1 Introduction ....................................................................................... 6
Purpose of this manual ................................................................................................................ 6
LTO Ultrium drives in a library ................................................................................................ 6
SAS drives ........................................................................................................................... 6
Backup applications .................................................................................................................... 6
2 HP (HP-UX) servers and workstations ..................................................... 7
Identifying connected devices ....................................................................................................... 7
For HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 (legacy format) .......................................................................... 7
For 11i v3 (Agile I/O tree view) ............................................................................................. 8
Adding stape/estape and eschgr/schgr (media changer driver) to the kernel ..................................... 9
For HP-UX 11i v2 ................................................................................................................. 9
For HP-UX 11iv3 (11.31) .............................................................................................. 11
Add device files ........................................................................................................................ 12
For HP-UX 11i v2 ............................................................................................................... 12
For HP-UX 11i v3 (HP-UX 11.31) .......................................................................................... 13
Using large block sizes .............................................................................................................. 14
What next? .............................................................................................................................. 14
3 HP (OpenVMS) servers and workstations ............................................. 15
Determining attached devices ..................................................................................................... 15
What next? .............................................................................................................................. 15
4 Linux servers and workstations ........................................................... 17
Ensure the correct HBA and driver are installed ............................................................................. 17
Check the driver modules are loaded in the kernel ........................................................................ 17
Determining the attached devices ................................................................................................ 18
Using the seek and tell features of mt .................................................................................... 19
What next? .............................................................................................................................. 19
5 IBM (AIX) servers and workstations ..................................................... 21
Identifying attached devices ....................................................................................................... 21
Configuring the device files ........................................................................................................ 21
If you are using a graphics terminal running X-Windows .......................................................... 21
If you are using a non-graphics terminal ................................................................................ 22
Device filenames under AIX ................................................................................................. 24
6 Sun (Solaris) servers and workstations ................................................. 25
Fibre Channel drives ................................................................................................................. 25
Configuring the device files ................................................................................................. 25
SAS drives ............................................................................................................................... 25
Identifying attached devices ................................................................................................. 25
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Kernel patch levels .................................................................................................................... 26
HP-data values ......................................................................................................................... 28
7 Verifying the installation .................................................................... 31
Verifying the installation of the drive (UNIX) .................................................................................. 31
To verify the installation: ...................................................................................................... 31
Example ..................................................................................................................... 32
8 Support and other resources .............................................................. 35
Related documents .................................................................................................................... 35
Documents specific to HP LTO Ultrium drives ........................................................................... 35
Documentation map ........................................................................................................... 35
Drives—general ........................................................................................................... 35
Installation and configuration ........................................................................................ 35
Operation ................................................................................................................... 36
Cartridges .................................................................................................................. 36
Interface ..................................................................................................................... 36
Maintenance and troubleshooting .................................................................................. 37
Dealing with errors ...................................................................................................... 37
LTO Ultrium features ..................................................................................................... 38
General documents and standardization ............................................................................... 38
Glossary ............................................................................................ 39
Index ................................................................................................. 41
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Figures
SAM GUI ............................................................................................................... 101
SAM text-based interface ......................................................................................... 102
SMH web-based interface (HP-UX11i v3) ................................................................... 113
Adding estape driver to the kernel ............................................................................. 124
Selecting a tape device to create its device files (Agile View) ........................................ 145
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