HP Copyutil

[charles lavender]

I am trying to get copyutil to recognize a non hp scsi III drive any suggestions.

[Andy Monks]

Charles,

Only 1. Don't use copyutil. The only purpose for that command was to ensure you had a complete backup before upgrading from hpux 9 to 10. I woudn't recommend it for anyother use (and really not for that either).

If you tape drive does compression, well copyutil doesn't make it! Also, as far as recognising non hp tape drives it won't. It will know about the ones at the time and thats it. If you must do a bit by bit backup, try using dd

[melvyn burnard]

Copyutil was developed mainly for use during hte 9.x to 10.x upgrade. It is SLOW and if you do not have trhe latest version may seem to wrok, but actually hasn't.
It also does not support non-HP devices, so this will also be a problem for you.
Depending upon what you are trying to backup, use dd, fbackup, dump, vxdump etc..

[Manuel Plaza]

Hi,

If the support disk that you have using don't recognise your disk, you can't use copyutil utility. There isn't nothing to do.

Regards

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

You dont need to use any ISL command to recognize a scsi driver.

You cat do it ( at ISL) using SEARCH.

But if you have included correct drivers in kernel and device are correctly configured and plugged in its scsi chanel you have to use ioscan once you have rebooted your system.

If your system does not boot your device are not properly plugged ( SE scsi in a FW channel i.e.).


If your systems boots but ioscan says UNKNOWN you must include scsi3 driver into your kernel.