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DLTtape
Application Note
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DLTtape
Installation HP® 9000 Series 800 System HP-UX® 9.04
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NOTE
: The information in this document pertains to the DLT™ 4000 or DLT™ 7000 cartridge tape drive or
the DLT™ 4500 or DLT™ 4700 tape mini-library that you are installing. The information may be applied as
well to installing DLT™ 2000, DLT™ 2000XT, and DLT™ 8000 cartridge tape drive or the DLT™ 2500,
DLT™ 2500XT, DLT™ 2700, DLT™ 2700XT tape mini-library. HP-UX, however, will not recognize these
models, but instead, will attempt to apply generic tape drive parameters. This may limit drive
performance and these models are not supported with HP-UX fbackup/frecover command in this version
of HP-UX.
The following section describes how to install a DLTtape tape peripheral on an HP9000/800 system
running HP-UX 9.04. This note assumes that the DLTtape tape peripheral you are installing conforms to
the SCSI-2 standard.
Installation
Instructions will cover the installation of the DLT tape peripheral hardware and configuration of the system
to communicate with the DLT tape peripheral. The installation requires a patch that you obtain from
Hewlett-Packard be installed on your system. This will allow the system to recognition of the DLT drive.
The patch ID and title currently is:
PHKL_12056 - s800 9.04 HP-PB SE SCSI and tape driver cumulative patch
Also, if you intend to use your DLT drive with HP’s fbackup/frecover utility, you will need the following
patch:
PHCO_6738 - s700_800 9.X cumulative fbackup(1M) and frecover(1M) patch
Using a web browser, you can download the patches from Hewlett-Packard’s Electronic Support Center
web site. The URL is
http://us-support.external.hp.com/
. Note that because of the nature of Hewlett-
Packard’s patch database, patch ID’s are subject to change. A patch whose ID no longer exists can be
identified by its title.
Before you install the patch, make sure the system has
tape2
tape device driver included in the kernel.
This can be accomplished using HP's SAM utility.
