configuring tape drive

[j.bobby]

hi guys,

can anybody pls tell me how to configure HP DAT40 SCSI tape drive in HPUX 11.23 on HP 9000 server.

regards
Jagannadh.

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

Attached the tape drive into the server
do
insf
or
insf -e
then
ioscan -fnC tape

Suraj

[j.bobby]

hi suraj,

i have already done it.But it's not working

Jagan.

[SUDHAKAR_18]

ioscan -fn |grep -i no

check for non claimed devices.

ioscan -fnC tape


Regards,

[Ganesan R · Accepted solution]

Hi Jagan,

You should enable Tape device driver "stape" in the kernel.

Goto SAM --> Kernel configurations --> Drivers --> then select stape and enable it.

Then only kernel will be able to access the tape device.

[Ganesan R]

Hi Jagan,

You can use kmsystem command to check if the driver is already loaded into the kernel or not.

#kmsystem |grep stape

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

Did you check the same into other server ?
is it work there ?

Suraj

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Hi
As suggested Ganeesshan you need first check if the driver stape is configured in the kernel

if the driver is not there then you need to reconfigure the kernel and add the stape driver .

Sagar

[unixguy_1]

Hi jagan,

I thing is it H/W problem. Pls check.....

if it's not a H/W Problem,the problem is in writes of that exact tapedrive.

Check that OMT/Tapedrive has a full writes.

Regards,
Unixguy.

[j.bobby]

Dear guys,

thanks a lot to all of u,especially to MR.Ganeshan.I have added the stape driver in Kernal as suggested by ganesan and it's working.But i don,t have IGNITE UX software to take Ignite backup.Please suggest me how to install this product.

Regards

Jagannadh.

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

Here you can download the ignite product.

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=IGNITEUXB

Once you downloaded just copy to your server using binary mode and use swinstall command to install the product. Command syntax would be

#swinstall -s

When you download the product, you can also download the installation instructions.


Here you can find the Ignite guides here.

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11i.html#Ignite-UX

[Ganesan R]

Hi Jagan,

Here you can download and find the installation instrucations as well.

http://docs.hp.com/en/IUX/download.html