HP Ultrium - Page 11

HP Ultrium drives UNIX configuration guide 11
For a Generation 2 drive, the second line will be:
8/0/2/0.3.0 stape HP Ultrium 2-SCSI
3. Highlight the Ultrium drive and select the following from the tool bar:
Actions
Create Device Files
Create Default Device Files
This creates default device files for the drive. To view the files that have been created, select:
Actions
Create Device Files
Show Device Files
where:
4. Exit
sam and run ioscan to see the tape drive:
%/sbin/ioscan -C tape -fn
To create device files using mksf:
NOTE: This method is not recommended.
1. Run insf:
% /sbin/insf -C tape
2. Create device files for the devices using the mksf command:
% /sbin/mksf -d stape -I <instance> [-n] [-u] /dev/rmt/X<name>
where:
Device File Description
<I> Instance number of the drive:
<I>m
<I>mn
<I>mb
<I>mnb
AT&T encoding, rewind driver
AT&T encoding, non-rewind driver
Berkeley encoding, rewind driver
Berkeley encoding, rewind driver
<X>
<Y>
<Z>
Card number
Target number
LUN number:
cXtYbZBEST
cXtYbZBESTb
cXtYbZBESTn
cXtYbZBESTnb
Best compression driver, AT&T encoding, with rewind
Best compression driver, Berkeley encoding, with rewind
Best compression driver, AT&T encoding, non-rewind
Best compression driver, Berkeley encoding, non-rewind
Argument Description
-d stape SCSI tape driver
-I <instance> Tape drive’s hardware address via the instance of the SCSI tape driver.
The first instance is 0, the second 1, and so on.
[-n] No rewind; absence of this parameter indicates rewind mode