HP Servers and Workstations—HP-UX 11.x
HP-UX Systems
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1. % sam
This will bring up the graphical user interface for the utility.
2. Select the following:
Peripheral Devices
Tape Drives
sam will then scan the system for any tape drives connected.
When an HP Ultrium Generation 3 drive is found, it will be displayed as:
Hardware Path Driver Description
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8/0/2/0.3.0 stape HP Ultrium 3-SCSI
3. Highlight the Ultrium 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
where:
4. When you have exited
sam, run ioscan to see the tape drive:
%/sbin/ioscan -C tape -fn
Device File Description
<I> is the 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>
is the card number,
is the target number,
is the 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
