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Jeff Nyberg
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tape library config questions

Hello all,

I'm having trouble communicating with a DLT tape library from the command line. The system is running HP-UX 11.0 w/ Omniback II A.04.10. Everything seems just fine related to my nightly backups via Omniback, but I'm also running ftio backups nightly as well so I want to write a command into my script to load and unload the tapes.
I'm wondering if perhaps I can create a /dev/picker device file via mknod /dev/picker c 203 ox030000 or if that will cause me problems.
Here is all related output from the commands I could think of:

opt/omni/lbin # ioscan -fH 0/5
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
============================================================================
ba 4 0/5 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Adapter (782)
ba 5 0/5/0/0 PCItoPCI CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS PCItoPCI Bridge
ext_bus 3 0/5/0/0/4/0 c720 CLAIMED INTERFACE SCSI C896 Ultra2 Wide LVD
target 7 0/5/0/0/4/0.7 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
ctl 3 0/5/0/0/4/0.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator
ext_bus 4 0/5/0/0/4/1 c720 CLAIMED INTERFACE SCSI C896 Ultra2 Wide LVD
target 8 0/5/0/0/4/1.0 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
autoch 0 0/5/0/0/4/1.0.0 schgr CLAIMED DEVICE HP C7145-8000
target 9 0/5/0/0/4/1.1 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
tape 2 0/5/0/0/4/1.1.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE QUANTUM DLT8000
target 10 0/5/0/0/4/1.7 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
ctl 4 0/5/0/0/4/1.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator
lan 1 0/5/0/0/6/0 btlan3 CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A5838A PCI 100BaseTX/SCSI COMBO
lan 2 0/5/0/0/7/0 btlan3 CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A5838A PCI 100BaseTX/SCSI COMBO

/usr/contrib/src # lsdev -d sctl
Character Block Driver Class
203 -1 sctl ctl

/opt/omni/lbin # cd /dev
/dev # ll |grep 0x030000
crw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 76 0x030000 Jul 30 06:15 gelan3
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 203 0x030000 Apr 30 2002 robot

/usr/contrib/src # mc -p /dev/robot -r DS
ERROR: I/O error

opt/omni/lbin # ./uma -ioctl /dev/robot
*** PROGRAM: UMA VERSION: HP OpenView OmniBack II A.04.10

*** Copyright (C) 1996 Hewlett-Packard Company
*** License is restricted for use with licensed
*** HP OpenView OmniBack II products.

[Critical] From: UMA@chuck.affinityplus.org "(unnamed)" Time: 07/30/03 12:51:16
[90:59] /dev/robot
Cannot open exchanger control device ([5] I/O error)

If anything else will help please let me know.

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Jeff
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Alexander M. Ermes
Honored Contributor

Re: tape library config questions

Hi Jeff.
Perhaps the attached doc might help.
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes
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Massimo Bianchi
Honored Contributor
Solution

Re: tape library config questions

Hi,
check in /dev/rac/*

If OB is working, somewhere there must be a valid special file. YOu can check specifying the library and looking in the exachanger control device, pay also attention to the host specified.

Massimo
Jeff Nyberg
Advisor

Re: tape library config questions

Alexander - thanks for the reply. That is actually the doc I was working off. It only left this one mini-hurdle for me.

Massimo - that's the path I needed! When going through the same doc that Alexander suggested it looked to me that I would see a device file that would work right in /dev called picker or something similar. I was using /dev/robot, which was obviously not correct.

Thank you both for your hellp!!

Sincerely,

Jeff