HP DDS/DAT tape drives UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide (DW049-90930, May 2010)

6. If you wish, type in a Reason for Change, such as “Initial estape installation May
1st 2007” and then select the Modify tab.
7. Click the OK button at the Operation Successful page. Both estape and stape drivers will now
be shown with Next Boot State as “static”.
8. For media changers, use a similar procedure to prepare the eschgr (with schgr) module.
9. From the right-hand panel on the Kernel Configuration page, click View Pending Changes and
reboot and proceed to reboot the system as directed.
10. Following the reboot ,re-run SMH and search again for the driver as in step 3 above. Current
State and Next Boot State should both be listed as “static”.
Add device files
For HP-UX 11i v2
Use the sam utility to create device files. sam runs as a mouse-driven GUI (see Figure 1 on page 9)
on a system with full graphics capability, or as a console text-based interface (see Figure 2 on page 10).
If you use the text-based interface, use the Tab and arrow keys to navigate, and the Return key to
select.
1. Enter sam at the command line:
% sam
2. Select the following:
Peripheral Devices > Tape Drives
sam will then scan the system for any tape drives connected.
For example, when an HP DAT 320 drive is found, for example, it will be displayed as something
like:
Hardware Path Driver Description
===========================================================
8/0/2/0.3.0 stape HP DAT320
3. Highlight the drive and select the following from the tool bar:
Actions > Create Device Files > Create Default Device Files
This will create default device files for the drive. To view the device files that have been created,
select:
Actions > Create Device Files > Show Device Files
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