Ibm (aix) servers and workstations, Determining the scsi id, Configuring the device files – HP LTO 4 SAS User Manual

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HP LTO Ultrium 4 drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide

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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”

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