Introduction; Purpose Of This Manual; Lto Ultrium Drives In A Library; Sas Drives - HP LTO-4 Technical Reference Manual

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Introduction

Purpose of this manual

This manual provides basic information on configuring the drives with various operating systems.
See the top-level release notes that accompany the drive for expected functionality and features.
LTO Ultrium drives are supported on the following platforms:
• HP (HP-UX) servers and workstations
• HP (OpenVMS) servers and workstations
HP (Tru64 5.1x) servers and workstations
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IBM (AIX) servers and workstations
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• Linux (kernel 2.6.x) servers and workstations
• Sun (Solaris 8, 9, 10) servers and workstations
For platforms not mentioned here, contact HP because there may be new connectivity details
available that arrived after the release notes were published.
See Chapter 8 on page 37

LTO Ultrium drives in a library

Although LTO Ultrium drives may also be used in a library, instructions about installing device
drivers for automatic robotics are not included in this manual.

SAS drives

SAS drives are only supported on Redhat and SLES Linux.

Backup applications

For optimum performance it is important to use a backup application that supports the drive's
features within your system's configuration.
For details of which backup applications are supported with your tape drive and system, visit the
HP Tape Compatibility website:
http://www.hp.com/products1/storage/compatibility/tapebackup/index.html
Follow the "Software compatibility" link then click a tick in the appropriate matrix to drill down into
detailed application support information.
See the Getting Started Guide for more information about usage models.
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