Driver for DLT8000

[Bruno Cunha]

Hello, can anyone tell me what driver should I use for a DLT8000 in a HP-UX 10.20 box ?

Thanks in advance

[melvyn burnard]

If you are trying to use the DLT8000 on an HP-PB style card, thius will not work at all.
You need to use an HSC style card.
Then al you need are the normal card and tape drivers to use the tape.

[Bruno Cunha]

I'm using a FC card to connect the box to the DLT, I ask what driver should I use because in other HP box I have STAPE controlling the DLT, and it's working fine, in the other box TAPE2 is controlling the DLT but I only get I/O errors.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

See http://www.products.storage.hp.com/eprise/main/storage/DisplayPages/summary.htm?DataPage=dlt8000

[Bruno Cunha]

Hi, I found out that I need patches PHKL_23790 and PHKL_19080, to stape driver recognize the DLT8000 tape drives and resolve FC-SCSI bridge problems. Hope this patches will work.

Thanks anyway
Regards

[Scott_14]

I have the same issue with the DLT8000, here is what you can do:

cd /usr/sam/lib/C

vi the file pd_devinfo.tx

add the 2 following lines, eiter copy them here, and I just pasted them under the 7000 entry for the tape...

TAPE:::stape::::.*DLT8000.*::::::Quantum DLT8000 Tape Drive::::::::::::BR,DLT

TAPE:::tape2::::.*DLT8000.*::::::Quantum DLT8000 Tape Drive::::::::::::BR,DLT


this should work, or you can install the patch mentioned.

[Jenifer Martins · Accepted solution]

Recently, I installed a DLT8000 Autoloader and my 9000 D-class server didn't see it either. HP gave me a list of Patches that I needed. The following is the list plus dependencies. My DLT8000 is working great using tar, cpio and fbackup.

PHCO_23437
PHCO_23844
PHKL_16751
PHKL_16957
PHKL_17858
PHKL_20611
PHKL_21595
PHKL_21661
PHKL_22286
PHKL_23419
PHKL_23612
PHNE_22507

Good luck.

[Bruno Cunha]

The DLT8000 now works fine, thanks all for your help.