Installing a Tape Library on an HP S700 Running HP-UX 10.x

Note. See the man page for “scsi_ctl” for the most recent and accurate information on this procedure.

  1. Use the command /usr/sbin/lsdev -d sctl to check whether the SCSI pass-through driver is installed.

    • If the driver is installed, output similar to the following appears:

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Character Block Driver Class

   203 -1 sctl pseudo

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    In this sample the major number of the sctl driver is 203. If the driver is installed, proceed directly to step 8.

    • If the driver is not installed, the second line of the output will be blank. If the driver is not installed, proceed to the next step.

  2. Start SAM (system administration tools) to add the pass-through driver.

  3. Choose Kernel Configuration.

  4. Choose Drivers.

  5. Select sctl SCSI pass-through driver.

  6. The pass-through driver is added to the kernel by the operating system.

  7. Verify that the driver has been added successfully by executing

    /usr/sbin/lsdev –d sctl

  8. On your controller node, run detect -i at the command prompt. detect -i generates the device file for the media changer and places it in the dev directory.

    Example: /dev/c0t5d0_sa.

    It also creates all necessary mappings for the media changer device.

The installation of the tape library media changer device file is complete. To test the installation, proceed to Chapter 36: Tape Library Verification. Use the media changer device file name (for example, /dev/c0t5d0_sa) as the argument for the tape library interface test program (JItest).

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