topic Re: An atdd driver for HPUX 11i v3 in Operating System - HP-UX

An atdd driver for HPUX 11i v3

Andrew Pollard — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:45:13 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is an "atdd" driver for HPUX 11iv3?

I have tried to install "atdd.5.5.0.49" but swinstall gives an error:
"Currently, there are no products on this source which are compatible with the target. Therefore, no products are shown."

I was able to install tapeutil version 4.3.2.0 fine. The tape library I'm working with is a "3584".

Any help would be great

Andrew

Re: An atdd driver for HPUX 11i v3

melvyn burnard — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:03:57 GMT

Probably a good idea to ask the vendor who supplies this software

Re: An atdd driver for HPUX 11i v3

Denver Osborn — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:28:42 GMT

There's no mention of an 11i v3 release of the atdd driver from IBM that I could find. The 5.5.x.x rev is 11i v2 Itanium specific while rev 5.6.x.x is 11i v2 PA-RISC. Check with IBM's support regarding when a driver to support 11i v3 will be available.

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr

-denver

Re: An atdd driver for HPUX 11i v3

TY 007 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:07:23 GMT

Hello Andrew,

Download atdd.5.6.0.61.bin:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX/11i_PCI/atdd.5.6.0.61.bin

# swinstall -s /tmp/atdd.5.6.0.61.bin

Options --> Change Options ...
[X] Allow installation of incompatible software

Good Luck. Check further with IBM Support.

Thanks

Re: An atdd driver for HPUX 11i v3

Andrew Pollard — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:58:20 GMT

Hi
Thanks for the advice. I contacted IBM and they will not have a driver ready for 11i v3 until Q1 2008.

I was wondering if I could just create a symbolic link for the changer "/dev/rmt/9chng" to "/dev/rac/c22t3d1" which is the only device name I see for the changer? Would this trick "tapeutil" into working?

Andrew