HP External Tape Drive

[Leon Shen]

Hi,

Just a stupid question. If I connect a HP external Tape drive with L2000(system will be down). would it detect the drive automatically or I need build the kernal ?

In the kernal driver and high light tape driver and build it. After reboot and do #ioscan -fC tape?

regards
Leon

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

Check the file /stand/system: if the word "stape" is listed there, the driver is already present. If it isn't there, you have to enable the driver in the kernel configuration and rebuild the kernel. You can do this before the hardware is actually installed.

(You could do the kernel configuration and hardware installation with just one reboot: make the kernel change (if necessary) and reboot. When the server starts to go through boot diagnostics, power off and connect the cables. Then just power on and let the system boot up.)

After installing the hardware, do "ioscan -fnC tape". If the tape device files (/dev/rmt/*) are not listed for the device, do "insf -C tape".

[Sunil Sharma_1]

by default stape and tape2 drivers are configured in kernel so if you didn't remove these drivers for some specific reason your server will detact tape drive and create device file during bootup.


Sunil

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi Leon,
Use lsdev command to know waht driver are loaded in the kernel.

# lsdev

And look for "stape" driver as told already. Normally it is loaded and you can connect the tape drive online. No need to reboot. Make sure while connecting tape drive is off and you make proper termination as well. Then power on the tape drive.
Use ioscan to know the status of your drive and it's associated special file.

# ioscan -fnC tape

Hope that helps.
Regards,