HP LTO-4 Ultrium 1760, Technical Reference Manual

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HP LTO Ultrium 4 drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide 27
6 IBM (AIX) servers and workstations
Determining the SCSI ID
Before you configure your system to support LTO Ultrium drives, determine which SCSI ID to use. IDs
must be unique for each device attached to the SCSI bus. To list existing devices, use the following:
% lsdev -C |gre p SCSI
This produces output similar to:
scsi0 A vailable 00-00-0S Standard SCSI I/O Controll er
hdisk0 Availabl e 10-60-0 0-0,0 16 Bit LVD S CSI Disk Drive
rmt1 De fined 00 -00-0S-2, 0 Other S CSI Tape Drive
The SCSI ID is in the series
00-00-0S- X ,0
, where
X
is the SCSI ID. Review the list of existing SCSI
IDs and choose an available ID to assign to the new tape drive.
Configuring the device files
To install an HP LTO Ultrium drive on an IBM workstation, create the appropriate device files for the
drive. To change to variable block mode, use the following procedure:
If you are using a graphics terminal running X-Windows
1. At a Windows terminal, type:
smit tape
2.
The following window is displayed:
If no device has been configured at this address before, select “
add a tape drive
” to set
up the address.
Otherwise, select “
change/show characteristics of a tape drive
”