Installation
9. Turn on the power to the peripherals and then to the workstation.
5. Set the SCSI address switch to the correct SCSI address.
7. Turn off the power to the workstation and the peripherals.
8. Connect the cables.
See the “Cable Connections” section.
4. Determine the SCSI address
(target ID) for the tape drive.
3. Shut down the operating system.
11. See Chapter 5 of the Quantum Tape Mini-Library Product Manual
for more information.
6. Set the voltage select switch to the correct voltage.
The auto-loader is set for 220V operation. If you are using 110V, you
must change the select switch. See the illustration on the next page.
1. Make sure that total length for each SCSI bus (including internal
cable lengths) is less than 6 meters (20 feet).
The internal SCSI cable length for this auto-loader is 0.35 meters
(14 inches).
Solaris Handbook for
SMCC Peripherals
or
Solaris AnswerBook™
on-line documentation
10. Configure the system.
Remember to reboot your system using
boot -r
2. For Solaris™ 2.4, 2.5, and 2.5.1 operating systems, add the
following to the
/kernel/drv/st.conf
file.
(Note - There must be five spaces between “SUN” and “DLT”.)
tape-config-list=
“SUN DLT4700”, “Quantum DLT 4700 Mini-Library”, “QDLT”;
QDLT =1,0x36,0,0xD639,4,0x80,0x81,0x82,0x83,2;
Operation
Read the Quantum CompacTape Handling and Storage Guidelines, this guide, and
chapters 1, 2, and 5 of the Quantum Tape Mini-Library Product Manual, before
operating the auto-loader.
Note – Many of the illustrations and procedures in the Quantum Tape Mini-
Library Product Manual do not apply to the SPARCstorage 4700 Tape Auto-
loader. The illustrations and procedures in this guide take precedence over the
Quantum documentation.
System Diagnostic Support
SunVTS
and SunVTS_PRO
support for Solaris 2.5.1 and prior operating
systems is available by applying patch-id number 103097-01 to your system.
Use your normal service channels to obtain this patch. This auto-loader is not
supported by SunDiag
.
SCSI connectors
SCSI address
switch
Power switch
Voltage select switch
Power connector
Density Specifiers
Density specifiers override the front-panel settings. Refer to the
st
man pages
for more information.
Software Commands
Brief descriptions of some commonly used software commands are in the
following table. Refer to the Solaris Handbook for SMCC Peripherals, man pages
or AnswerBook on-line documentation for more information.
Density
specifiers
Cartridge Types and Capacities
CompacTape IV
CompacTape IIIxt
CompacTape III
l, h
20 Gbytes
15 Gbytes
10 Gbytes
m, c
40 Gbytes
1
30 Gbytes
1
20 Gbytes
1
1
Assumes a typical compression ratio of 2:1. The compression ratio will vary depending
upon the type of data being compressed.
Command
Description
ufsdump
Creates incremental or full backups. The
-l
option is used to
sequence tape cartridges for large back ups.
ufsrestore
Retrieves data backed up using
ufsdump
tar
Creates tape archives and adds or extracts files
mt
Sends commands to magnetic tape devices
st
Acts as a device driver and interface to SCSI tape devices
tapetool
OpenWindows™ tool that reads files from tape or archives files to tape
cpio
Copies file archives in and out
