CAn Dlt 9000 cam be used to boot Ignite recovery tape

[Santhosh.H]

I wanted to know is it possible to boot through the iginite tape using DLt drive

[Wodisch]

Hello Santhosh,

usually HP9000-systems can boot from DLT-drives, and then use a "make_recovery" tape in such a drive, of course.
The problem is more about your station - some do not permit booting from DLTs, and some need a firmware-upgrade before they can!

HTH,
Wodisch

[Santhosh.H]

I tried doing it but it failed. I was able to sucessfully create the tape using "make_tape_recovery" later after reboot i gave "boot alt p11" i.e the sequential devise no. can u help me on this

[harry d brown jr]

As far as I've been able to determine, is that you can't boot from DLT's. Hopefully HP will make some firmware changes that will allow such.

live free or die
harry

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

The answer is: it depends on the interface, not the drive. See the attached paperclip with text from the most recent Ignite/UX newsletter. You can also see this information at the Ignite website (Release Notes):

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/docs/release_note_A.3.5.html

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/docs/release_note_B.3.5.html

[Santhosh.H]

ext_bus 4 0/2/0/0 c720 CLAIMED INTERFACE SCSI C87x Fast Wide Differential
target 19 0/2/0/0.6 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
tape 0 0/2/0/0.6.0 stape CLAIMED DEVICE QUANTUM DLT8000
Can this help u in determining whether it can be used to boot Ignite recovery tape

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Santosh,

What is the system model ?.

Regds

[Santhosh.H]

yes possible to boot the cmd is "boot px" earlier i had tried with "boot alt px". My systems is A500 HP 9000 server wiht external SCSI DLt drive.
Lates firmware i.e sep 2001
Ux 11i OS