HP Tape Library Configuration Guide
Table Of Contents
- hp tape library configuration guide
- Configuration
- Configuring the Host System
- Windows NT
- Sun Solaris
- HP-UX Hosts
- Table 1 Drivers Needed
- Installing the Pass-Through Driver
- HSC or PCI Pass-Through Driver Installation
- 1. Run SAM.
- 2. Select Kernel Config, and press Return.
- 3. Select Drivers, and press Return.
- 4. Select sctl.
- 5. From the Menu Bar, select Actions. Select Add Drivers to Kernel, and press Return.
- 6. From the Menu Bar, select Actions. Select Create New Kernel, and press Return.
- 7. At the Are you sure prompt, respond Yes. Press Return.
- 8. After the status messages, select OK. Press Return. The system reboots.
- 1. Run SAM.
- Creating a Device File for the Robotics Controller
- Verifying the Installation
- Table 1 Drivers Needed
- MPE/iX Hosts
- Requirements
- Configuring the Host
- 1. Power on the library and host. Run ODE at the ISL prompt: ISL>ODE
- 2. Identify the device path through RUN MAPPER: ODE> RUN MAPPER ***STARTING EXECUTION OF MAPPER**...
- 3. Boot the system. At the MPE prompt, run sysgen and start the io section: sysgen SYSGEN version...
- 4. If not already configured, configure the differential card and the pseudo/target level of the ...
- 5. Configure the robotics controller and the drives (the pass-thru driver): io> adev 30 id=HPA466...
- 6. Verify the bindings between PATH, LDEV number, ID, PMGR (device drivers), and LMGR attributes ...
- a. Verify the binding for the device adapter (the fw/differential dam): io> lpath 10/4/4.0.0 PATH...
- b. Verify the binding for the targets (the transparent dm): io> lpath 10/4/4.0 PATH: 10/4/4.0 LDE...
- c. Verify the binding for the robotics controller (the pass-thru driver): io> lpath 10/4/4.0.0 PA...
- d. Verify the binding for the tape drives (the differential tape dm): io> lpath 10/4/4.1.0 PATH: ...
- e. To configure the Storage Node on the NetWorker server, verify the ldev specifications: io> Ide...
- a. Hold the configuration changes: io> hold
- b. Exit the io section: io> exit
- c. If you have followed the local convention for backing up the configuration file, keep the chan...
- d. Exit sysgen and reboot according to local convention: sysgen> exit
- 1. Power on the library and host. Run ODE at the ISL prompt: ISL>ODE
- Verifying the Connection
- Diagnostics
- Diagnostic support tools
- HP Library & Tape Tools
- Support Tools Manager (STM)
- STM is the primary HP-UX support tool. Though this document provides general information about ST...
- There are three user interfaces, all in /usr/sbin/stm/ui/bin/:
- There are three basic operations in STM:
- STM saves detailed information in several logs:
- Table 4 on page24 shows which types of STM tools are supported on the robotic and tape drive com...
- Table 4 Supported Tool Characteristics
- Table 5 Drive Expert Tool Command
- Table 6 Robotic Controller Expert Tool Command
- Firmware Update Tool
- When started, the firmware update tool will examine the firmware revision of the current SCSI dev...
- If no files are found (or no compatible files are found), it will display an error message statin...
- If you have enabled the licensed firmware update tool, you can start it by selecting [Utility], f...
- Sysdiag
- Sysdiag is the MPE/iX support tool, and provides a consistent user interface for support of tape ...
- Sysdiag is a licensed-use tool, so a user must first know and enter a diagnostics password. Enter...
- :suplicen
- Use of sysdiag also assumes knowledge of the ldevs at which the components to be supported are lo...
- :sysdiag
- This command will bring up the Diagnostic User Interface (DUI) prompt. Two diagnostics are availa...
- SCSITAC and SCSIDLT are divided into parts called “sections.” To use either of these diagnostics,...
- DUI> scsitac ldev=6 sc=4
- SCSITAC contains three sections:
- Sections 1 and 2 perform tests on the library, report results, and return to the DUI prompt. Sect...
- Table 7 SCSITAC Interactive Commands
- Table 8 SCSIDLT Interactive Commands
26 Diagnostic support tools
Tests Test Unit Ready Performs “Test Unit Ready” command on
drive.
Selftest Executes the drive’s built-in diagnostic tests.
Tape Validate Reads a suspect tape until data ends or an
error is detected.
Write Test Writes data to a tape, reads it back, and
compares.
Utility Tape Copy Performs a tape-to-tape copy.
Load Tape Performs a load sequence.
Unload Tape Performs an unload sequence.
Rewind Rewinds to the beginning of a tape.
Mode Sense Displays user selected mode page data.
Mode Select Allows user to change selected mode select
settings.
Media Removal Prevents or allows media removal.
Data capture Runs the “tape_capture -D -m” command and
displays the results.
Options Display Format Displays data as either raw hex, decoded
format text, or both.
Help General Help Brings up the dialog box with various help
topics about the expert tool command.
Version Displays the version number of the expert tool
command.
Table 5 Drive Expert Tool Command
Category Command Effect