how to scan and check s/n tape device?

[ITRC Support]

I want to check healthy tape devices on hp-ux.
how to scan and check s/n new tape device?

[Mike Shilladay]

Hi,

To check for tape devices you can use 'ioscan -fnC tape', that tell you what the kernel knows about currently. You can always cross reference with the 'lssf ' e.g. lssf /dev/rmt/0m.

How you would get the serial number of the tape device, you would have to use the tape tools, that is availabe from the web. I believe this will give you the serial number, it does from a windows machine, but I have never used it on an HP UX machine.

regards,

Mike.

[Mike Shilladay]

Sorry, forgot the link - doh!

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=501424&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=501423&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=7

Mike.

[JJ de Haas]

Use the stm tool to get information like firmware, serial and status of the drive.

The TUI mstm(1m) will probably your best bet.