Ultrium3 Tape drive on Rx2620

[steve hasler]

Hi,

I have attached an Ultrium3 tape drive to the onboard 68pin SCSI connector on the rear of a RX2620 running HP-UX11iv3. I can see tape with ioscan etc....

# ioscan -fkNnCtape
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===================================================================
tape 1 64000/0xfa00/0xe estape CLAIMED DEVICE HP Ultrium 3-SCSI
/dev/rtape/tape1_BEST /dev/rtape/tape1_BESTb /dev/rtape/tape1_BESTn /dev/rtape/tape1_BESTnb

# ioscan -fkCtape
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=====================================================================
tape 0 0/1/1/1.3.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP Ultrium 3-SCSI
# ioscan -fknCtape
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
=====================================================================
tape 0 0/1/1/1.3.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE HP Ultrium 3-SCSI
/dev/rmt/0m /dev/rmt/0mn /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BEST /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BESTn
/dev/rmt/0mb /dev/rmt/0mnb /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BESTb /dev/rmt/c3t3d0BESTnb

but am unable to access and use the tape drive..
# mt rewind
/dev/rmt/0mnb: No such device or address

I have tried removing and redreating driver files etc with insf -e

any ideas / help appreciated

thanks
steve

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

The tape drive won't work off the built in. You need to use your scsi add in card, or purchase and obtain and install the card.

I ran into this fun on an rx2600 in the HP Performance center in Ra'ana'h Israel.

They had a scsi card handy so it didn't slow me down very much.

SEP

[steve hasler]

Hi

Thanks for your quick response and clarification

Regards
Steve