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

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NOTE:

SAS drives are not 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.

$ mc sysman io find$ mc sysman io auto$ sho dev mk

Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt

Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt

MKA400: Online 0

↑ use this value in the next command line

$ sho dev MKA400/full

Magtape MKA400:, device type HP C7438A, is online, record-oriented device,

file-oriented device, available to cluster, error logging is enabled,

controller supports compaction (compaction disabled), device supports fastskip (per_io).

Error count 0 Operations completed 222530

Owner process "" Owner UIC [1,4]

Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W

Reference count 0 Default buffer size 512

Density default Format Normal-11

Volume status: no-unload on dismount, beginning-of-tape, odd parity.

Configuring an autoloader on OpenVMS and MRU

1. Find the name of the changer device by executing:

$ mcr sysman io auto/log

If the DAT tape drive is at device ID mka400, the changer device will be gka401.

The parts of the device name are as follows:

First SCSI bus

SCSI changer

SCSI target ID 4

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