HP (Hewlett-Packard) Q1538-90925 manuale d’uso

HP restricted HP Ultr ium tape dr i v es t e c h n i c a l re f e re n c e m a n u a l Gener ati on 3 dr i v es v olume 5: UNIX conf i gur ation gui de P art number: Q15 38–9 092 5 V olume 5 Edi tion 6.4, Ma y 2006[...]

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HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 3 HP restricted Related documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Documents specific to HP Ultrium drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 [...]

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HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 5 HP restricted R elated doc uments The f ollow ing doc u ments pr ov ide additional inf ormation: Documents spec if ic to HP Ultr ium dri ves • H a rdw a re I n te gr a t io n G u i d e , volume 1 o f the HP Ultr ium T ec hnical Ref ere nce Manual • Soft ware I n[...]

6 HP restricted Oper ation Car trid ges Interf ace Optimi zing performance (S CS I only) 1 HW Integr ation: c h. 8 n/a 2 S W Integr ation: ch . 4 UN IX con figuratio n 5 UN IX Config SCSI Dri ves FC Dri ves External dr iv es (SC SI only) 1 HW Inte gr ation: ch . 5 n/a In Libr ari es 1 HW Integr ation: c h. 1 In Servers (S CS I only) 1 HW Int egrati[...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 7 HP restricted Maintenance and tr oubleshooting Dealing w ith err ors Ultrium features Res ponding to Sense K e ys and AS C/Q 2 S W Integrati on: ch. 6 Sense K e ys and AS C/Q —see RE QUE ST SEN SE command 3 S CSI: ch . 4 SCSI Drives FC Drives Cleaning 2 S W Integr[...]

8 HP restricted Gener al doc uments and s tandard iz ati on See http://www .t10.or g/t10_main.htm for INCI TS S CS I Primary Commands—3 (SP C- 3) and other specifications Copi es of documents o f other standards bodi es can be obtained fr om: Cartr idge Memory (L T O-CM)s 1 HW Integr ation: c h. 2 2 S W Integ r ation: ch. 5 6 HW Integratio n: ch [...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 9 HP restricted 1I n t r o d u c t i o n P urp ose of t h is ma nu al This manual pr ov ides basic inf ormation on conf iguring the dr iv es with var ious oper ating sy stems. See the top-le vel r elease notes that accompan y the dri ve f or expected f unctionality an[...]

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HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 11 2H P - U X s y s t e m s HP ser vers a nd workstat ions —H P -U X 1 1. x NO TE: HP- UX 10. x is only supported by Gener ation 1 Ultrium dr iv es. Intr oducti on Befo re y ou install your t ape dri ve log on to the HP w e b site , www .hp .co m , and download the [...]

HP-UX systems 12 Fig u re 1 SA M G U I Fig u re 2 S A M text-b ased inter face F or HP -UX 11.11 (11i v ersion 1) 1. Enter sam at the command line . 2. Select the follo wing: Kernel Config uration Drivers[...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 13 3. Highli ght the stape or schgr dri ver . If the dri ver has not been added to the k ernel, both Cur rent St ate and P ending Stat e w ill read “Out ” . 4. Select the follo wing: Actions Add Driver to Kern el The P ending Stat e w ill now r ead “In” . 5. T[...]

HP-UX systems 14 Actions Create Device Files Create Defaul t Device Files This w ill cr eate default de vi ce files f or the dri ve . T o vie w the dev ice file s that have been c r ea ted , select : Actions Create Device Files Show Device Files 4. When y ou have e xited sam , r un ioscan to see the tape dri ve: %/sbin/ioscan -C tape -fn All def au[...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 15 HP restricted 3 HP alpha UNIX HP alpha UNIX 5 . x 1. Add the follo wing entry to your /dev/ddr.dbase fil e: SCSIDEVICE Type = tape Name = “HP” “Ultrium” # PARAMETERS: TypeSubClass = lto # Linear Tape Open BlockSize = 262144 TagQueueDepth = 0 MaxTransferSize[...]

HP alpha UNIX 16 HP restricted The de vice f iles then hav e the sy ntax: tapeX_ dn For exa m p le, / dev/ntape/ta pe66_d1 is a dev ice file for dev ice 66 , no -re wind using densit y number 1. Si nce all density numbers have the sa me par ameters it does not matter w hich density numbe r fi le is used . Wha t n ext? Once dev ice files ha ve been [...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 17 HP restricted 4I B M ( A I X ) Determining the S CS I ID Befo re y ou configur e your s ystem t o suppor t Ultrium dr iv es, deter mine whi ch S CS I I D to use . IDs must be uniqu e f or eac h dev ice attac hed to the SC SI bus . T o list e xisting de vi ces, u se[...]

IBM (AIX) 18 HP restricted Once dev ice files ha ve been cr eated, y ou should confir m that your ne w tape dri ve is wor king pr operly . Chapter 7 on p age 2 7 pro vi des instructi ons on backing up and res toring a sample file to test your insta llat ion. De vi ce filenames under AI X Use de vi ce filename s as listed belo w for the combinati on[...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 19 HP restricted 5L i n u x Determining the S CS I ID (L inu x) Look at the output of dmesg to f i nd out what S CSI c hannel number is used fo r each connection. T o find out the S CSI IDs in use on eac h channel , type: cat /proc/scsi/scsi This w ill produce ou tp u[...]

Linux 20 HP restricted NO TE: T o add dr ive rs to the static ally built k ernel y ou need the Linu x source co de a vailable on disk and kno wledge of ho w to use the k ernel building tools that ship w ith vari ous Lin ux distr ibutions . This should not be attemp ted by nov ice users. In or der to determine if the dr iv e has been detected by the[...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 21 HP restricted Wha t n ext? Once dev ice files ha ve been cr eated, y ou should confir m that your ne w tape dri ve is wor king pr operly . Chapter 7 on p age 2 7 pro vi des instructi ons on backing up and res toring a sample file to test your insta llat ion.[...]

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HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 23 HP restricted 6 Sun S y stems , Solar is 8 , 9 , 10 Determining the S CS I ID Bef or e you conf igur e your s ys tem to support an HP Ultr ium dri ve , determine w hich SCS I ID to use . IDs must be unique for eac h dev ice on attached to the SCS I bus. 1. Use t he[...]

Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 24 HP restricted If fo r some rea son y ou cannot upgr ade to the minimum patc h lev el, y ou can make the f ollow ing fi le modifi cations to enhance perfor mance: 1. In the file /kernel/dr v/st.conf , a fter these lines: ######## # Copyright (c) 19 92, by Sun Microsystems, Inc. #ident "@(#)st.conf 1.6 93/05/03 S[...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 25 HP restricted HP -Data V alues The va lu es fo r HP_LTO_GEN_n and name , whi ch pr ov ide normal L T O mode, ha ve the fo llow ing meanings: The synta x fo r HP _LTO_GEN_ n on Solar is 9 is: <drive type> = <version>, <type>, <bsize>, <opt[...]

Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 26 HP restricted V a lues for the par ameters for name are as f ollow s: <no. of densities> 4 Ther e are f our densities f ollow ing in the parameter list . <density n> 0x00 Cr eates a dev ice file w ith compressi on disabled. <density 3> 0x44 The density code fo r d ata compr ession ena bled b y defa[...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 27 HP restricted 7 V er if y ing the Installati on V er ify ing the Installati on of the Dr iv e (UNI X) As part of the installati on process , you w ill hav e installed the appr opriate de vice dr iv er for y our UNIX s ystem , and cr eated devi ce files to communi c[...]

Verifying the Installation 28 HP restricted NO TE: M ake sure you prefi x the file n ame with ‘ . ’ w hen you bac k it up to tape . If you do not , the r estore oper ation in step 3 w ill ov er wr ite the ori ginal c opy on disk . 3. Read the f ile back fr om tape: % cd /tmp % tar xvf <device file> The ‘ x ’ option to tar her e means [...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 29 HP restricted Glos sar y AT & T m o d e Berk eley and A T& T functional mode s differ in “ r ead-only” c lose f unctionality . In A T& T mode , a devi ce close oper ation w ill caus e the tape to be r epositioned j ust after next filemar k on the ta[...]

30 HP restricted fibre channel F ibre Channel pr o vides an ine xpensiv e yet e xpendable means of quic kly tr ansferr ing data between workstati ons, mainfr ames, super computers , desktop computers, st orage dev ices , display s and other peripher als. Although it is called F ibre C hannel, its ar chitectur e repr esents neither a c hannel nor a [...]

HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 31 HP restricted Single -Ended and Low V oltag e Differential SCSI Thes e terms define ho w the signals ar e transmitted along the cable . Wit h single -ended (SE) S CS I, eac h signal tr av els o ver a s ingle w ir e and ea ch s ignal’s value is dete rmined by comp[...]

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HP Ultrium drives technical reference manu al, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 33 HP restricted Inde x A AIX 17 ANSI 5 asynchronous data transfer 29 AT&T mode 29 B Berkeley mode 29 BOT 29 buffered mode 29 C compression 29 confirming installation 27 D data transfer 29 device files AIX 18 IBM (AIX) 17 Sun workstations 23 direct access 31 docum[...]

34 HP restricted U ultra SCSI 31 V verifying installation 27 W wide data transfer 29 wide SCSI 31[...]