HP Ultrium Tape Drive Technical Reference Manual
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- Page 1 Technical reference manual Generation 3 drives Volume 5—Unix configuration guide Part number: Q1538–90925 Volume 5 Edition 6.1, December 2004...
- Page 2 Edition 6 September 2004 Edition 6.1 December 2004 This document is frequently revised and updated. To find out if there is a later version, please ask your HP OEM Representative. Changes Generation 3 SCSI and FC drive version Reformatted and updated...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
HP Servers and Workstations—HP-UX 11.x ........ - Page 4 7 Verifying the Installation Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX)........31 To verify the installation: .
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Page 5: The Purpose Of This Manual
NOTE: Throughout this manual frequent reference is made to SCSI commands. For more information on SCSI commands for HP Ultrium drives see volume 3, The SCSI Interface, of the HP Ultrium Technical Reference Manual set. Ordering details are given below. -
Page 6: Installation And Configuration
Drives—general Connectors Controller architecture Front Panel LEDs Mechanism and hardware Specifications Installation and configuration Connectors Determining the configuration External drives (SCSI only) In Libraries In Servers (SCSI only) In Tape Arrays (SCSI only) (SCSI only) Modes of Usage Optimizing performance UNIX configuration Operation External drives... -
Page 7: Maintenance And Troubleshooting
Features Managing the use of cartridges Use of cartridges Interface SCSI Guide Commands Error codes Implementation Interpreting sense data Messages Mode pages —see the MODE SENSE command Pre-execution checks Responding to Sense Keys and ASC/Q Sense Keys and ASC/Q —see REQUEST SENSE command Maintenance and troubleshooting Cleaning External drives... -
Page 8: General Documents And Standardization
Handling errors How error correction works Logs—see the LOG SENSE command Recovering from write and read errors Software response to error correction Software response to logs TapeAlert log Ultrium features Adaptive Tape Speed (ATS) Autoload Automation Control Interface (ACI) Cartridge Memory (LTO-CM) Data Compression, how it works Data Compression, managing Design principles... - Page 9 Copies of General Documents can be obtained from: 11 West 42nd Street ANSI New York, NY 10036-8002 CP 56 CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland 114 Rue du Rhône ECMA CH-1204 Geneva Switzerland Global Engineering Documents 2805 McGaw Irvine, CA 92714 +41 22 849 6000 Tel: http://www.ecma.ch Web URL:...
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Page 11: Introduction
(Chapter Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 • For platforms not mentioned here, please contact HP because there may be new connectivity details available that arrived after the release notes were published. Chapter 7 for details of how to verify the installation. - Page 12 For further information about optimizing performance and making full use of the drive’s functions, please contact the software manufacturer or HP HP Omniback Legato Networker Veritas NetBackup 1. Cell Manager is only available on HP-UX or Windows 2.
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Page 13: Hp-Ux Systems
Determining the SCSI ID Before you configure your system to support your new HP Ultrium drive, you need to determine what SCSI ID to use. The SCSI ID must be unique for each device attached to the SCSI bus. To... -
Page 14: Creating The Device Files
For an HP Ultrium drive, execute the following: % /sbin/ioscan -f | grep "Ultrium" The new lines should look similar to the following, where the instance of the SCSI tape driver, not the SCSI ID: tape 2/0/1.5.0 If you are installing the drive onto a Storage Area Network (SAN), the fibre channel/ NOTE: SCSI bridge will also appear in the list of attached devices. - Page 15 This will bring up the graphical user interface for the utility. Select the following: Peripheral Devices Tape Drives will then scan the system for any tape drives connected. When an HP Ultrium Generation 3 drive is found, it will be displayed as: Hardware Path Driver =========================================================== 8/0/2/0.3.0...
- Page 16 You can examine the contents of /dev/rmt using the ls command to determine which identifiers have already been used. <name> Specifies the short name (in HP-UX 9.x-style) of the device file: mnb No rewind, compression disabled, Berkeley-mode device hnb No rewind, compression disabled, Berkeley-mode device...
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Page 17: What Next
A hardware address specified by instance 5 ( • • No rewind ( • Berkeley mode tape positioning on close ( A filename of , where • 4mnb You would execute the following: % /sbin/mksf -d stape -I 4 -n -u /dev/rmt/4mnb You can check that the appropriate device file was created using the follows: % /sbin/lssf /dev/rmt/4mnb... - Page 18 HP-UX Systems...
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Page 19: Hp Alpha Unix
3 HP Alpha UNIX HP Alpha UNIX 5.x x x x Add the following entry to your SCSIDEVICE Type = tape Name = “HP” “Ultrium” PARAMETERS: TypeSubClass BlockSize TagQueueDepth MaxTransferSize ReadyTimeSeconds SyncTransfers WideTransfers InquiryLength DENSITY: DensityNumber OneFileMarkOnClose = yes DensityCode... -
Page 20: What Next
Once the device files have been created, you should confirm that your new tape drive is working properly. Chapter 7, “Verifying the Installation” a sample file to test your installation. HP Alpha UNIX = 0x3D # Vendor Unique Page Code 3D = 0x02 = 0x01... -
Page 21: Ibm (Aix)
SCSI IDs and choose an available ID to assign to the new tape drive. Configuring the Device Files To install an HP Ultrium drive on an IBM workstation you will need to create the appropriate device files for the drive. -
Page 22: Device Filenames Under Aix
Do not choose “ Change the block size field to 0, and click on the “ change. HP Ultrium drives will work with 43P, the drive is also boot-capable, provided a boot tape is generated using mksysb Once the device files have been created, you should confirm that your new tape drive is working properly. -
Page 23: Linux
This will produce output similar to the following for each device: Attached Devices Host: SCSI0 Channel: 00 Id:00 Lun:00 Vendor: HP Model ------------ Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI Revision 02 Look at the ID information to establish which IDs are in use. - Page 24 This is a SCSI chipset driver for the LSI Logic family of HBAs (amongst others). sym53c8xx This is a SCSI chipset driver for the Adaptec 7xxx chipset family (such as aic7xxx Adaptec 29160LP). Latest SCSI controller drivers for Linux will be available from the manufacturer’s web site. In order to communicate with a tape device, the operating system needs to have drivers for the tape and the underlying transport mechanism (the host bus adaptor) loaded.
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Page 25: Using The Seek And Tell Features Of Mt
, you must tell the utility offers a convenient way of stinit page for more information. If you use this approach, set the and the model to “ Ultrium 3-SCSI provides instructions on backing up driver that HP Ultrium drives ”. What Next? - Page 26 Linux...
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Page 27: Sun Systems, Solaris
6 Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 Determining the SCSI ID Before you configure your system to support an HP Ultrium drive, you need to determine which SCSI ID to use. IDs must be unique for each device on attached to the SCSI bus. -
Page 28: Configuring The Device Files
SCSI target address of the device you have attached. See “HP-Data Values” on page 29 below for the values of the parameters in these lines. Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 ”. This might be as follows (but on a single line): st@2,0 (shown underlined above) as the device file. -
Page 29: Hp-Data Values
Once the device files have been created, you should confirm that your new tape drive is working properly. Chapter 7, “Verifying the Installation” and restoring a sample file to test your installation. HP-Data Values The values for HP_LTO_GEN_n meanings: The syntax for HP_LTO_GEN_n <drive type>... - Page 30 Parameter Value <bsize> 0xd639 or <options> 0x18659 <no. of densities> <density n> 0x00 <density 3> 0x40, 0x42 or 0x44 <default density> <X timeout> Values for the parameters for Parameter Value target Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 Meaning Indicates variable block size. This value is derived from constants provided in /usr/include/sys/ scsi/targets/stdef.h.
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Page 31: Verifying The Installation
Rewind the tape using the command line: % mt -f <device file> rewind For example, on HP-UX: % mt -f /dev/rmt/0mnb rewind If the command completes successfully, there will be no feedback. If it fails, you will see an error message on the console. -
Page 32: Example
The arguments are as follows: <original file> <retrieved file> Example: Suppose you are verifying the installation of an HP Ultrium tape drive on an HP-UX 11.X system. The procedure would be as follows.: Change directory to root: % cd / Back up /stand/vmunix % tar cvf /dev/rmt/0m ./stand/vmunix... - Page 33 Change to the temporary directory: % cd /tmp Extract the file from the tape: % tar xvf /dev/rmt/0m Compare the original with the restored version: % cmp /stand/vmunix /tmp/stand/vmunix Note that the original filename is not prefixed with ‘ ’. Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX)
- Page 34 Verifying the Installation...
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Page 35: Glossary
(16-bit) data transfer, two bytes are transferred at the same time instead of wide a single byte. HP Ultrium drives support asynchronous, synchronous and narrow (8-bit) wide transfers. transfers, the target controls the flow of data. The initiator can only... - Page 36 Small Computer System Interface—a standard command specification and SCSI command set that enables computers and peripherals to communicate with each other. HP’s Ultrium drives adhere to the SCSI-3 specification and support all features required by that standard. Glossary command. On the other hand, data is not flushed to tape in...
- Page 37 SE devices, this is not recommended as the whole bus is slowed to Ultra speeds; instead, use LVD devices only. HP’s Ultrium drives are Ultra-320 compatible devices. They should be used only on LVD host bus adapters for maximum performance.
- Page 38 sequential access Sequential access devices store data sequentially in the order in which it is received. Tape devices are the most common sequential access devices. Devices such as disk drives are direct access devices, where data is stored in blocks, not necessarily sequentially.
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Page 39: Index
HP-UX IBM (AIX) Sun workstations direct access documents, related fast SCSI fibre channel filemarks filenames under AIX HP Alpha HP-UX systems determining SCSI-ID device files IBM (AIX) determining SCSI ID device files immediate mode infinite flush installation, verifying... - Page 40 Index...