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Re: mksf for IBM LTO

 
Tony Willis_1
Frequent Advisor

mksf for IBM LTO

I keep getting
Invalid Physical Device on an OB II log
for an
IBM Ultrium LTO Drive.
I am using stape and have tried several device files.

Any suggestions for the minor numbers or a different driver?
"Not Today,Nice Try, Next Time"
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Mike Hassell
Respected Contributor

Re: mksf for IBM LTO

Tony,

What does the output of your ioscan show:

ioscan -funC tape

Is the stape driver finding the Ultrium LTO drive at all? What is the exact error in your OB II log?

I think that stape should work for this LTO drive. You may want to try the following:

1. Backup your current /dev/rmt files.

2. /sbin/insf -d stape -H path -I x
-e (where path is the output from ioscan and x is the instance number)

Hope that helps.

-Mike
The network is the computer, yeah I stole it from Sun, so what?
Frank Slootweg
Honored Contributor

Re: mksf for IBM LTO

First check:

- If the device is supported (by IBM or HP) on HP-UX (on your platform and release).
- If the device is supported (by HP or IBM) by OmniBack (for your release). This is probably documented in the device section of the Release Notes of your OmniBack version.