Manuale d’uso / di manutenzione del prodotto Ultrium Tape Drive del fabbricante HP
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HP Ultr ium tape dr i v es T ec hni cal r e f er ence man ual Gener a ti on 3 dr i v es V olu me 5—U ni x conf i gur ati on gui de <Bold Header> Pa r t n u m b e r : Q 1 53 8 – 90 925 Vol um e 5 E dition 6 .
<Bold Header> Leg al and noti ce inform at ion © Copy right 2004—H ewlett- P ack ard Dev elopment Company , L.P . The infor mation contained i n this d ocument is subject to change without noti ce .
Cont ent s Con ten ts 3 The pu rpose of this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Related docume nts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4C o n t e n t s 7 Verif yin g the Insta llation Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 To ve rify the installati on: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The purpose of this m anual 5 T he pur po se of this manual Thi s is one of si x volume s that doc ument HP Ultr ium dri ves . T his vo lume pr o v ides bac k gr ound inf ormati on f or dr iv er and appli c ation de veloper s. T he follo wing pr oducts ar e co ve r ed .
6 Dr i v es—general Installation and confi gur ation Operati on Car trid ges SCS I D rive s FC Dri v es Con n e ct or s 1 HW I ntegra tion: ch. 7 1 HW Inte gr at io n: ch. 4 Co nt ro l l e r arch i t e c tu re 6 Background: ch. 4 Fro n t Pan e l L E D s 1 HW Integ ration: ch.
Related docume nts 7 Interf ace Maintenan ce and tr oubleshooting Dealing w ith err ors Fe a t u re s 6 HW In tegration: ch. 5 Man agi ng t he u se of car t ridges 2 SW I n t e g r a t i o n : ch. 1 Use o f cartridges 2 SW I n t e g r a t i o n : ch. 3 SCSI D rives FC Drives SCSI Drives FC Dri v es SC S I G u i d e 3 SCSI Commands 3 SC SI : ch.
8 Ultrium featur es Gener al doc uments and s tandar d i z ati on • Small Computer S y stem Interfac e (S CSI-1 ) , ANSI X 3.131-1 9 86. T h is i s t he A NSI authoriz ed standar d f or S CS I implem entation , av ailable thr ough ANSI • Enhanced Sm all Comput er S y stem Interface (S C SI- 2) , ANSI X3T9 .
Related docume nts 9 Copi es of General D ocuments c an be obtained fr om: ANSI 11 W est 4 2nd Str eet Ne w Y ork , NY 10 03 6 -8 00 2 USA IS O CP 5 6 CH-12 11 Genev a 20 Swi t zer l a n d EC MA 1 14 Rue du Rhône CH-120 4 Gene v a Swi t zer l a n d Te l : +4 1 2 2 84 9 600 0 We b U R L : http: //www .
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The Purpose of this Manual Intr od ucti o n 11 1I n t r o d u c t i o n T he P u rp ose of t h i s M a nu a l Thi s manual pr ov ides basi c inf ormati on on co nfi gur ing the dri ves w ith var io us oper a ting sys t em s . P lease se e the top-le vel re lease note s that accompan y the dri ve fo r e xpected f unctio nality and feat ures.
Introduction 12 desc ri bed in this manual . F or further inf ormation a bout optimi zing perfor mance and making full u se of the dr iv e ’s f unctions , please con tact the so ftwar e manuf actur er or HP 1. Ce ll Manager is onl y av ailable o n HP -UX or W indow s 2 .
HP Servers and Workstations—H P-UX 11.x HP -U X S ys tems 13 2H P - U X S y s t e m s HP Se rv er s an d W or ks tati ons—HP -UX 11. x NO TE: HP -UX 10.x is only supported b y Gener ation 1 Ultr iu m dri ves . Intr oduct io n Bef or e y ou install y our tape dr i ve log on to the H P w eb site , www.
HP-UX S ystem s 14 F or an HP Ultrium dr i v e, e x ecute the follo wing: % /sbin/ioscan -f | grep "U ltrium" The ne w lines should look similar t o the follo wing , w her e the 4 in the I fi eld r epresen ts the instance o f the S CS I ta pe dri ver , not the S CSI ID: tape 4 2/0/1.
HP Servers and Workstations—H P-UX 11.x HP -U X S ys tems 15 1. % sam Thi s w ill bri ng up the gr aphical u ser int erface f or the u tility . 2. Select the follo wing: Peripheral Devices Tape Drives sam w il l then scan the s ys tem f or an y tape dr i ves connec ted .
HP-UX S ystem s 16 T o cr eate de v ice f ile s u sing mksf : NO TE: This method is not r ecommended . 1. Ru n insf a s fo llo ws: % /sbin/insf -C tape 2.
What Next? HP -U X S ys tems 17 • A har dw ar e addr ess spec ified b y instance 5 ( -I 5 ) • No r ew ind ( -n ) • Berk ele y mode tape po siti oning on clo se ( -u ) • A filename o f 4mnb , w.
HP-UX S ystem s 18.
HP Al pha UNIX 5.x HP Alpha UNI X 19 3 HP Alpha UNI X HP A lpha UNI X 5 . x x x x 1. Add the follo wing entry to your /dev/d dr.dbase file: SCSIDEVICE Type = tape Name = “HP” “Ultrium” # PARAM.
HP Alp ha UNIX 20 Data.UBYTE[0] = 0x3 D # Vendor Unique Page Code 3D Data.UBYTE[1] = 0x0 2 Data.UBYTE[2] = 0x0 1 Data.UBYTE[3] = 0x0 0 2. Rebu ild the k ernel b y running /sbin /ddr_co nfig , then r eboot the s ys tem w ith the tape dr iv e attac hed.
Determining the SCSI ID IBM ( AIX) 21 4I B M ( A I X ) Det er mining t he S CS I ID Bef or e you conf ig ure y our s ys tem t o suppo rt yo ur Ult rium dr iv e , y ou need t o det ermine w hic h S CSI I D to use . I Ds must be unique for ea ch devi ce at tached t o the SCS I bus.
IBM (AIX) 22 3. Selec t fr om the w indo w : “ chang e/show charac terist ics of a tape drive ” 4. F r om the pop-up windo w , selec t “ os t ” or “ Other SCSI tape drive ” as the tape dr iv e y ou w ish t o chang e . Do no t ch o o se “ 4mm2gb ”.
Determining the SCS I ID (Linux) Li nux 23 5L i n u x Det er mining t he S C S I ID (L inu x) Lo ok at the outpu t of d mesg to f ind ou t what S CSI c hannel number is used f or each con necti on .
Linux 24 Late st S CS I contr oller dri v ers f or L inu x wi ll be a vailable f r om the manuf actur er’s w eb site . In or der t o communi cate w ith a tape dev ice , the oper ating s y stem needs to ha v e dr i v ers for the tape and the under ly ing transpo rt mechanism (the ho st bus adapt or) loaded.
What Next? Li nux 25 If y ou w ant r equests to space to end o f data to be f ast er , you sho uld also e nable ST_FAS T_MTEOM in the same file . After changing this f i le, r ebuild the modules and inst all the ne w binary . At the v er y lea st , this r equir es: make modules make modules_install fr om th e /usr/src/linu x dir ectory .
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Determining the SCSI ID Sun S y stems, Solar is 8 , 9 , 10 27 6S u n S y s t e m s , S o l a r i s 8 , 9 , 1 0 Det er mining t he S CS I ID Bef or e yo u con f i gur e y our s yste m t o support an HP U ltr ium dr i ve , y ou need to determ ine w hic h S CS I ID t o use .
Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 28 Co n fi g u ri n g t h e D evic e Fil e s Determine the de vi ce file b y ty ping: % ls -l /dev/rmt/*m | grep "st@ X " wher e X is the S CS I ID . Identify the line for the tape dr i v e. F or e x ample, if the dri v e wa s at SC SI ID 2 , look f or the line con taining “ st@ 2,0 ” .
HP-Data Values Sun S y stems, Solar is 8 , 9 , 10 29 2. If y ou ar e replac ing an e xis ting tape de v ice o n the same S CSI ID , re mov e the contents o f the /dev/rmt dir ectory as f ollo ws: % cd /dev/rmt % rm * 3. Do a r e config ur e boot: % cd / % touch /reconfigure % sync;halt 4.
Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 30 V alues fo r the par ameters f or name ar e as follo ws: <bsize> 0 Indicates v a r i able block si z e. <options> 0xd639 or 0x18659 This valu e is d eri v ed from cons tan ts p ro v ided in /usr/includ e/sys/ scsi/t argets/st def.
Verifying the Installation of the Driv e (UNIX) V e rify ing the Installati on 31 7 V er if y i ng the Installati on V er if y ing the Inst allati on of the Dr i v e (UNIX) As par t of the installati .
Verifying the Ins tallation 32 The ar g uments follo w the cvf opti ons in the command line . T heir v alues depend o n the oper ating s ys tem; suggest ed value s ar e giv en the appropriate o perating system chapter .The ar guments ar e as f ollo w s: NO TE: M a ke s u re yo u p re f ix t h e f i l e n a m e wi t h ‘ .
Verifying the Installation of the Driv e (UNIX) V e rify ing the Installati on 33 3. Change to the tempor ary direc to ry: % cd /tmp 4. Extrac t the file fr om the tape: % tar xvf /dev/rmt/0m 5.
Verifying the Ins tallation 34.
Glossar y 35 G lossar y AT & T m o d e Berk ele y and A T& T fun ctio nal modes differ in “ read-onl y” clo se f unctionali ty . In A T& T mode , a de v ice c lose oper ation w ill cause the t ape to be r e positi oned j ust after ne xt file mark on the tape (the s tart of the ne xt f ile) .
Glossary 36 fibre channel F ibr e Channel pro vide s an ine xpensi v e ye t expenda ble means of qui ckl y tr ansfer ring data between w orkstati ons, mainf r ames, super compute rs, de sktop comput ers , stor age de v ices , displa y s and other per ipherals .
Glossar y 37 Single -Ended and Lo w V oltage Differential S CSI The se terms de f ine ho w the signals ar e tr ansmitted along the cable . Wit h single -ended (SE) S CS I, each signal tr avel s o ver a single wir e and each signal’s v alue is deter mined by c ompar ing the signal to a pair ed gro und wi r e.
Glossary 38 sequential access Sequential access de vi ces st ore data sequen tiall y in the or der in whi ch it is r ecei ved . T ape de vi ces ar e the most common sequential access de v ice s. Dev ice s such as disk dr i ves ar e dire ct acce ss de vi ces, w here dat a is sto red in bloc ks, not necessar ily seq uentiall y .
Inde x Index 39 A AIX 21 ANSI 5 asynchronous data transfer 35 AT&T mode 35 B Berkeley mode 35 BOT 35 buffered mode 35 C compression 35 confirming installation 31 D data transfer 35 device files AI.
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