HP (Hewlett-Packard) Ultrium Tape Drive manuel d'utilisation

HP Ultr ium tape dr i v es T ec hni cal r e f er ence man ual Gener a tion 3 dr i v es V olu me 5—Un i x conf igur ati on gui d e <Bold Header> Pa r t n u m b e r : Q 1 53 8 – 90 925 Vol u m e 5 E dition 6 . 1, December 2004[...]

<Bold Header> Legal and notic e inform ation © Copy right 2004—H ewlett-P ackar d Development Company , L.P . The infor mation contained i n this document is subject to change without notice. Hewlet t-P ackard makes no warranty of any kind wit h rega rd to this m aterial, i nclud ing, bu t not lim ited to, t he impli ed warranti es of merc[...]

Cont ents Cont en ts 3 The purpos e of this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Related docume nts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Documents specific to HP Ultrium drive s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]

4C o n t e n t s 7 Verifyin g the Insta llation Verifying the In s tallation of the Drive (UNIX). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 To verify the installati on: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Example: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

The purpose of this man ual 5 T he pur po se of this manual This is one of si x volume s that doc ument HP Ultrium dr iv es. T his vo lume pr ov ides bac k gr o und infor mation for dr iv er and applicatio n dev elopers. T he follo wing pr oducts are cov ered . Capac ities are w hen the dr i ve is using data compres sion with a compr ession r atio [...]

6 Dr i v es—general Installation and confi gurati on Operati on Car t ridge s SCS I Dri ve s FC Dri v es Con n ec t or s 1 HW Integ ration: ch. 7 1 HW Int e gr at i o n : ch. 4 Con t ro ll e r a rch it e ct u re 6 Background: ch. 4 Fro n t Pan e l L E D s 1 HW I nteg ration: ch. 6 1 HW Inte gration: ch. 3 Mechanism and hard war e 6 Background: ch[...]

Related documents 7 Interf ace Maintenance and tr oubleshooting Dealing w ith err ors Fe a t u re s 6 HW Integration: ch. 5 Man agi ng t he use of c ar tridges 2 SW I n t e g ra t i o n : ch. 1 Use o f cartridges 2 SW I n t e g ra t i o n : ch. 3 SCSI D rives FC Drives SCSI Drives FC Dri v es SC S I G u id e 3 SCSI Commands 3 SC SI : ch. 4 Err or c[...]

8 Ultrium features Gener al doc uments and s tandar di z ati o n • Small Computer S y stem Interfac e (S CSI-1 ) , ANSI X3.13 1-1986 . This i s t he AN SI authoriz ed standar d for S CSI implementati on, a vaila ble through AN SI • Enhanced Small Computer S ys tem Interface (S CS I - 2 ) , ANSI X3T9 .2 - 19 9 3 R e v . 10L, av ailable thr ough [...]

Related documents 9 Copi es of General D ocuments c an be obtained fr om: ANSI 11 W est 4 2nd Str eet Ne w Y ork , NY 10 03 6 -8 002 USA ISO CP 5 6 CH-12 11 Geneva 20 Swi t zerl a n d EC MA 1 14 Rue du Rhône CH-120 4 Gene v a Swi t zerl a n d Te l : +4 1 22 84 9 600 0 We b U R L : http :// www .ecma .c h Globa l Engine er ing Doc umen ts 28 05 M c[...]

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The Purpose of this Manual Intr od uction 11 1I n t r o d u c t i o n T he P u rp ose of t h i s Ma nu a l This manual pr ov ides basi c inf ormati on on co nfi gur ing the dri ves w ith var iou s oper a ting sys te m s. P lease see the top-lev el releas e notes that accompan y the dri ve fo r e xpected f unctio nality and feat ures. Ultri um dri v[...]

Introduction 12 descr ibed in this manual . F or further inf ormation a bout optimi zing perfor mance and making full u se of the dr iv e ’s func tions , please cont act the so ftwar e manufac turer or HP 1. Cell Manager is only av ailable on H P -UX or W indow s 2 . R edhat Server only (not Calder a, Su se, and so o n) HP-UX AI X Sun, Solaris Li[...]

HP Servers and Workstations—H P-UX 11.x HP -UX Sy stems 13 2H P - U X S y s t e m s HP Serv er s an d W or kstati ons—HP -UX 11. x NO T E: HP-UX 10.x is o nly supported by Generati on 1 Ultr iu m dri ves . Intr oductio n Befor e you install y our tape dri v e log on to the HP web site , www.h p.com , and dow nload the latest har dwar e enableme[...]

HP-UX Sy stems 14 F or an HP Ultrium dr i ve , exec ute the follo w ing: % /sbin/ioscan -f | grep "Ultrium" The ne w lines should look similar to the f ollow ing, whe re the 4 in the I fi eld r epresen ts the instance of the S CS I tape dri ver , not the S CSI ID: tape 4 2/0/1.5.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP Ultrium 3-SCSI NO T E: If you ar e[...]

HP Servers and Workstations—H P-UX 11.x HP -UX Sy stems 15 1. % sam This will br ing up the gr aphical u ser int erface f o r the utility . 2. Select the follo wing: Peripheral Devices Tape Drives sam w il l then scan the s y stem for an y tape dr i ves connect ed . When an HP Ultr ium Generati on 3 dr i ve is f ound, i t will be displa y ed as: [...]

HP-UX Sy stems 16 T o cr ea te de v i ce files using mksf : NO T E: This method is not r ecommended . 1. Ru n insf as f ollo ws: % /sbin/insf -C tape 2. Cr eate the de vi ce f iles for the de vi ces using the mk sf com mand as f o llo ws : % /sbin/mksf -d stape -I <instance> [-n] [- u] /dev/rmt/X<name> wher e: See the man page ( man 1m [...]

What Next? HP -UX Sy stems 17 • A hard war e addr ess spec ified b y instance 5 ( -I 5 ) • No r ew ind ( -n ) • Berk eley mode tape po sitioning o n clo se ( -u ) • A filename o f 4mnb , wher e 4 is the t ape de vi c e identifi er ( /dev/rm t/4mnb ) Y ou would e x ecut e the follo wing: % /sbin/mksf -d stape -I 4 -n -u /dev/rmt/4 mnb Y ou c[...]

HP-UX Sy stems 18[...]

HP Alpha UNIX 5.x HP Alpha UNI X 19 3 HP Alpha UNI X HP Alpha UNI X 5 . x x x x 1. Add the follo wing entry to your /dev/d dr.dba se file : SCSIDEVICE Type = tape Name = “HP” “Ultrium” # PARAMETERS: TypeSubClass = lto # Linear Tape Open BlockSize = 262144 TagQueueDepth = 0 MaxTransferSize = 0xffffff # 16Mb - 1 ReadyTimeSeconds = 120 # Secon[...]

HP Alp ha UNIX 20 Data.UBYTE[0] = 0x3D # Vendor Uniqu e Page Code 3D Data.UBYTE[1] = 0x02 Data.UBYTE[2] = 0x01 Data.UBYTE[3] = 0x00 2. Rebuild the k ernel by r unning /sbin /ddr_co nfig , then r eboot the s ys tem w ith the tape dri ve attached . The de v ice f iles for the Ultr ium dri ve wi ll be generat ed in /dev /tape a nd / dev/ntape whe n yo[...]

Determining the SCSI ID IBM ( AIX) 21 4I B M ( A I X ) Det er mining t he S CS I ID Bef o re y ou conf igur e y our s ys tem t o suppo rt y our Ult rium dri ve , y ou need t o determine w hic h SCS I ID to use. ID s must b e un ique for e ach device at tached to the SCS I bus. T o list the ex isting devi ces, use the follow ing com man d: % lsdev -[...]

IBM (AIX) 22 3. Selec t fr om the w indo w : “ chang e/show charac terist ics of a tape drive ” 4. F r om the pop-up windo w , selec t “ os t ” or “ Other SCSI tape drive ” as the tape dr iv e you w ish t o chang e . Do no t ch o ose “ 4mm2gb ”. 5. Change the block si z e field to 0, and cli ck on the “ DO ” button or pre ss [En[...]

Determining the SCS I ID (Linux) Li nux 23 5L i n u x Det er mining t he S C S I ID (L inu x) Lo ok at the outpu t of dmesg to f ind out what S CS I channel nu mber is us ed fo r eac h con necti on. T o find o ut the S CS I ID s in use o n each c hannel, type: cat /proc/scsi/scsi Thi s w ill pr oduce output similar to the f ollow ing for each de vi[...]

Linux 24 Late st S CSI contr oller dr i vers f or L inu x wi ll be av ailable fro m the manuf actur er’s w eb site . In or der t o communi cate w i th a ta pe dev ice , the oper ating s y stem needs to ha v e dr i v ers for the tape and the under ly ing transpo rt mechanism (the ho st bus adapt or) loaded. Ensure that b oth are a vailable as e it[...]

What Next? Li nux 25 If y ou w ant req uests to space to end o f data to be f aster , you should also e nable ST_FAST_M TEOM in the same file . After c hang ing this file , rebuild the mo dules and install the ne w binary . At the v er y least , this r equir es: make modules make modules_install fr om the /usr/src/linu x dir ectory . See yo ur k er[...]

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Determining the SCSI ID Sun S y stems, Solar is 8 , 9 , 10 27 6S u n S y s t e m s , S o l a r i s 8 , 9 , 1 0 Det er mining t he S CS I ID Befor e y o u conf i g u r e your s y stem to suppo rt an HP Ultr ium dri ve , y ou need to determ ine w hich S CS I ID to u se . IDs must be uniqu e f or eac h de v ice o n attached to the S CSI bu s. 1. Use t[...]

Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 28 Co n fi g u ri n g t h e D evic e F i l e s Determine the de vice f ile by typi ng: % ls -l /dev/rmt/*m | grep "st@ X " wher e X is the S CS I ID . Identify the line for the tape dr i v e. F o r e x ample, if the dri v e wa s at SC SI ID 2 , look f or the line con taining “ st@2,0 ” . This might be as [...]

HP-Data Values Sun S y stems, Solar is 8 , 9 , 10 29 2. If y ou ar e replac ing an ex isting tape de vi ce on the same S CSI ID , remo ve the co ntents of the /dev/rmt dir ectory as f ollo ws: % cd /dev/rmt % rm * 3. Do a r e config ur e boot: % cd / % touch /reconfigure % sync;halt 4. When the s ystem is dow n, r e boot: % boot -r Make sure you in[...]

Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 30 V alues for the par ameters f or name ar e as follo ws: <bsize> 0 Indicates v a r i able block si z e. <options> 0xd639 or 0x18659 This value is d eri ved from consta nts p rov ide d in /usr/inc lude/sy s/ scsi/targ ets/stdef.h . T h e va lue determin es wh ic h oper ati ons the dri ver can perform w ith[...]

Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UN IX) V erifying the I nstallation 31 7 V er if y ing the Installati on V er if y ing the Installation of the Dr i ve (UNI X) As part of the installati on pr ocess, y ou w ill hav e installed the appropr iate de vi ce dri ver fo r your UNIX s ystem , and c r eated dev ice f iles to comm unicate w ith the ta[...]

Verifying the Ins tallation 32 The ar guments follo w the cvf optio ns in the co mmand line. T heir v alues depend on the operati ng s ys tem; suggest ed value s ar e giv en the appropriate operating system chapter .The ar guments ar e as follo w s: NO T E: M a ke s u re yo u p re fix t h e fi l e n a m e w i t h ‘ . ’ when y ou bac k it up to [...]

Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UN IX) V erifying the I nstallation 33 3. Change to the tempor ary directo ry: % cd /tmp 4. Extrac t the f ile fr om the tape: % tar xvf /dev/rmt/0m 5. Compar e the ori ginal w ith the r esto red v ersion: % cmp /stand/vmunix /tmp/stand/vmunix Note that the or iginal f ilename is not pre fi xed w ith ‘ . ?[...]

Verifying the Ins tallation 34[...]

Glossar y 35 Gl ossar y AT & T m o d e Berk eley and A T& T functio nal modes differ in “ read-onl y” c lose f u nctionality . In A T& T mode , a dev ice cl ose operati on w ill cause the t ape to be r e positioned j ust after ne xt file mark on the tape (the st art of the ne xt f ile) . Ber kel e y m ode Berk eley and A T& T fu[...]

Glossary 36 fibre channel F ibr e Channel pro vide s an ine xpensi ve y et expenda ble means of qui ckl y transf er ring data between w orkstati ons, mainf r ames, super computer s, de sktop comput ers , stor age dev ices, displa ys and other peripher als. Altho ugh it is called F ibr e Channel, its ar chitectur e repr esents neither a channel nor [...]

Glossar y 37 Single -Ended and Lo w V oltage Differential S CSI The se terms de fine ho w the signals ar e tr ansmitted along the cable . Wit h single -ended (SE) S CS I, each signal tr av els o ver a single wir e and eac h signal’s v alue is deter mined by c ompar ing the signal to a pair ed gro und wi re . Signal quality tends to decreas e ov e[...]

Glossary 38 sequential access Sequential access de vice s stor e data sequenti all y in the or der in whic h it is re cei ved. T ape de vi ces are the mos t common sequential access de vice s. Dev ice s such as disk dri ves ar e direc t acce ss dev ices, w here dat a is sto red in blocks , not necessar ily seq uentiall y . Direct access allo ws f o[...]

Inde x Index 39 A AIX 21 ANSI 5 asynchronous data transfer 35 AT&T mode 35 B Berkeley mode 35 BOT 35 buffered mode 35 C compression 35 confirming installation 31 D data transfer 35 device files AIX 22 HP-U X 14 IBM (AIX) 21 Sun workstations 28 direct access 38 documents, related 5 F fast SCSI 37 fibre channel 36 filemarks 36 filenames under AIX[...]

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