Hp (Openvms) Servers And Workstations; Determining Attached Devices; What Next - HP LTO-4 Technical Reference Manual

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HP (OpenVMS) servers and workstations

NOTE: Only SCSI drives are supported on Alpha Server systems.

Determining attached devices

After connecting the tape drive to your system, boot OpenVMS and check for the presence of the
new tape device. Execute the following commands.
$ sho dev mk
Device
Name
MKD300:
↑ use this value in the next command line
$ sho dev MKD300/full
Magtape SIT058$MKD300:, device type HP Ultrium 4-SCSI, is online,
file-oriented device, available to cluster, error logging is enabled,
controller supports compaction (compaction disabled), device supports
fastskip (per_io).
Error count
Owner process
Owner process ID
Reference count
Density
Volume status:

What next?

You are now ready to begin using your tape drive. Please consult your OpenVMS system
documentation for details.
HP LTO Ultrium 4 drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide
Device Error
Status Count
Online
0
""
00000000
0
default
no-unload on dismount, beginning-of-tape, odd parity.
Volume
Label
0
Operations completed
Owner UIC
Dev Prot
Default buffer size
Format
Free Trans Mnt
Blocks Count Cnt
[SYSTEM]
S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W
2048
Normal-11
0
19