HPUX command to get Serial Number of Tape Drives

[Marci Formato]

I have a HPUX server that is zoned to see an IBM 3584 tape library with Ultrium LTO2 tape drives. Is there a way that I can view the serial numbers of the tape drives? ioscan command only shows me the h/w path. I want the actual physical serial number. Thanks, Marci

[Sean Dale]

Unless the drive came with software to do this, I don't think there is a command to find that. Since all drives are different and mostly proprietary, there probably isn't a command that would find that information from all drives. I would search the IBM site to see if they have any utilities to do this.

[Sameer_Nirmal]

Try this command

# echo "map; wait; selall; wait; info; wait; infolog; view; done" | cstm > /tmp/cstm.txt

Maybe you can get the required information from the library management software.

[Richard Bickers]

Hi Marci,

I'm assuming these are IBM LTO2 drives?

With HP drives you can use LTT (Library & Tape Tools from www.hp.com/support/tapetools) which is our diagnostic tool. You can get the serial numbers from there.

I'm less clear what happens with IBM drives. It will find them OK but functionality will be limited - you may still get to see the serial number though as that's quite high level.

Worth a try if the other methods suggested don't get you what you need.

[Anovo]

Hello Marci,
If youâ re connected to a library, have you tried the mc command with the â n option?
Have tested it with Ultrium 2/3 drives and STK L180, and it returns me the drive S/N
Ciao, - Stéphane.