Configuring new hp tape drive

[Mohammed Imran]

hi all,
Pleae help me how to configure the tape drive model C1556D in HP Box 785/B2000, after connecting the tape drive i have rebooted the system & checked the ioscan but tape drive nothing appears, after that i tried to work with sam device & peripherals & re-build the kernel, but still the same.

Please help me.

Thanks in advance,
Cheers!!!

[Steven E. Protter]

When adding a tape drive you have to do a few more things.

You go to sam

kernel
drivers

add the driver stape

Then process the kernel and move it to production.

It might not be stape, but you can see from the doc on the tape drive which driver to add to the kernel.

Then it should show up on ioscan and you can install any drivers that came with the drive.

SEP

[Mohammed Imran]

SEP,
Thank you very much, i manage to configure the tape drive it ok now it is rcognized in ioscan and manage to backup some directory to the tape drive.

But now facing some other problem which is i m trying to do complete system backup including OS with copyutil comman support cd provide by hp. When i trying to boot through boot admin
e.g after restarting system press escape to terminate booting sequence and going to isl prompt from there i gave command sea and seen the all the bootable path and from there i choose >bo p1 which is CD-ROM it doesn't boot i receive the following message:
Booting:-
ENTRY_INIT failed, status = -4 unrecoverable hardware error.
0x0000 Fffffffc 00000001 00000001
0x0010 0000000 0000000 0000000
0x0020 0000000 0000000 0000000
0x0030 0000000 0000000 0000000
0x0040 0000000 000001b 000001b
0x0050 454e4841 0000051 454e4841
0x0060 00000000 0000020 0000020
0x0070 00000003 0000003 0000003

Pleae help me now what will be the problem

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Could be that your CD isn't bootable.
Did it boot on the other machines?
What is on the CD?

Caesar

[Eugeny Brychkov]

To find only bootable devices use
sea ipl
this command will list all devices which have ISL loader for hpux or ODE
Eugeny

[Tim Adamson_1]

Why are you using copyutil? Ignite would be a much better product and it is free. You can create a make_tape_recovery tape to create a bootable archive tape of vg00. Refer to the make_tape_recovery(1M) man page for further information.

Tim.

[Michael Tully]

I agree with Tim. Why fool around with copyutil which is extremely old when using ignite (make_tape_recovery) is so easy and of course free. It's saved my bacon at least once. You can get it here:

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/download.html

[twang]

ENTRY_INIT -4 error, it may be caused by:
- the disk is experiencing hardware faults.
- the path to the disk is experiencing problems. e.g. Termination, cabling, SCSI adapter, SCSI adapter seating.

Did you try to clean the CD-drive or use a different boot CD? The problem may be caused by bad media.

[Steven E. Protter]

With Ignite's make_tape_recovery utility, you can make bootable tapes for disaster recovery. Ignite is available on the application cd's and from software.hp.com

link.
http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/index.html

Also with Ignite you can create a golden image of your system and even create a bootable cd with a little bit of effort.

I'm including some documentation that will get you started.

Using Ignite golden images
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90767/B2355-90767_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90767/00/00/32-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90767/00/00/32-toc.html&searchterms=golden%7cimage%7cignite&queryid=20030831-224510

Setting up an Ignite Image servver
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90126/B2355-90126_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90126/00/00/25-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90126/00/00/25-toc.html&searchterms=golden%7cimage%7cignite&queryid=20030831-224510

Loading patches using Ignite:
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90153/B2355-90153_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90153/00/00/62-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90153/00/00/62-toc.html&searchterms=golden%7cimage%7cignite&queryid=20030831-224510

More
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90772/B2355-90772_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90772/00/00/34-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90772/00/00/34-toc.html&searchterms=golden%7cimage%7cignite&queryid=20030831-224510

Learning Ignite is not trivial, but it will save you a lot of time and help you accomplish a lot.

SEP

[Mohammed Imran]

Gentlemen,

Thank you very much for all the expertise and comment; actually we have to follow our group instruction as per them we have to do the backup through the ???copyutil???. I will check with them and revert back to you all.

The same CD boots from other machine so I don???t think media problem, now please help me how to sort out this problem how can I boot from CD.

Cherrs!

[Michael Lampi]

It appears that your boot from the CD-ROM drive is failing. If this same CD-ROM can successfully be used to boot on other systems, then it would logically follow that the CD-ROM drive on the one in which it is failing to do so is probably malfunctioning.

It could be as simple as dirty optical heads on the CD-ROM drive, which can be cleaned with a CD-ROM drive head cleaner, or more difficult as something electrically or mechanically wrong with the drive.

If nothing else, try using a different CD-ROM drive from which to boot your system.

[de.joe_1]

it may be insert the error cd!

regards!