topic Re: Tape Drive DLT TZ87 in Operating System - OpenVMS

Tape Drive DLT TZ87

lsallas — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:49:59 GMT

Hi,

We have a DLT drive connected to a BA1200 via a SCSI controller.
This is the output of SHO DEV PK

PKA0: Online PKB0: Online PKC0: Online PKD0: Online
PKE0: Online

How can I find out which SCSI controller the Tape Drive is connected to?

Re: Tape Drive DLT TZ87

Kris Clippeleyr — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:54:25 GMT

Hi,

Normally tape devices show up as MK devices.
Did you do a
MCR SYSMAN IO AUTO
command?
What does
SHOW DEVICE MK
tell you?

Greetz,

Kris (aka Qkcl)

Re: Tape Drive DLT TZ87

Uwe Zessin — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:54:59 GMT

$ show device MK

Unless you are using port allocaton classes, the controller letters should match.

Re: Tape Drive DLT TZ87

lsallas — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:02:11 GMT

This is SHO DEV MK

$1$MKB500: (BA1200) Online
$1$MKC0: (BA1200) Online

So from what you are saying
MKB500: is on PKB0:
and
MKC0: is on PKC0:

Is that correct?

Re: Tape Drive DLT TZ87

Uwe Zessin — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:04:38 GMT

Yes, that is correct.

Please let me point out that you don't have 'a BA1200' - that is just the nodename of your machine, not the hardware name.

You should be able to get it via:
$ write sys$output f$getsyi("hw_name")

Re: Tape Drive DLT TZ87

Volker Halle — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:26:02 GMT

Isallas,

SDA is also a useful tool, to display the SCSI configuration:

$ ANAL/SYS
SDA> CLUE SCSI/SUMM
SDA> EXIT

It will show you each SCSI adapter and the devices connected to that adapter.

Volker.

Re: Tape Drive DLT TZ87

lsallas — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:29:57 GMT

Thanks