Surestore Dat 24 on hp-ux v11.11

[Abd El-Rahman]

Dear Guys,
i had a problem today as i installed hp-ux version 11.11 on machine rp5430 - i know it is an old machine but it is the only available for me :)-
and i added tape drive ( surestore dat 24 )
but when i needed to make backup i couldn't see the tape drive although i tried as i saw here before
# sam >>kernel configuratio >> drivers
then i typed
#ioscan >> insf -e >> ioscan -funC tape

but i didn't see any o/p.
Can any one suggest me good solution or advice to see this tape although i was seeing it on the same machine when there was hp-ux version 11.23
but now no thing is being appeared ? forgive me but really i'm still new t hp-ux .

[Torsten.]

Let's start by posting the output of

# ioscan -fn

[Abd El-Rahman]

thanks for care ,
i'm with you and sure i started by revising the output of this command
but now i noticed something and have imagination for the problem
this is what i noticed

one of entries from the output of #ioscan -fn is like this

# ioscan | grep unknown
0/0/2/1.0.0 unknown HP C1537A



and i feel that the problem is that system doesn't have the driver of this tape drive or am i wrong ??? :(

by the way this is the full output of #ioscan -fn

#
# ioscan -fn
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===========================================================================
root 0 root CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS
ioa 0 0 sba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS System Bus Adapt)
ba 0 0/0 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Ad)
lan 0 0/0/0/0 btlan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP PCI 10/100Base
/dev/diag/lan0 /dev/ether0 /dev/lan0
ext_bus 0 0/0/1/0 c720 CLAIMED INTERFACE SCSI C896 Ultra D
target 0 0/0/1/0.7 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
ctl 0 0/0/1/0.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator
/dev/rscsi/c0t7d0
ext_bus 1 0/0/1/1 c720 CLAIMED INTERFACE SCSI C896 Ultra d
target 1 0/0/1/1.2 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
disk 0 0/0/1/1.2.0 sdisk CLAIMED DEVICE HP 36.4GATLAS10KA
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0
target 2 0/0/1/1.7 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
ctl 1 0/0/1/1.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator
/dev/rscsi/c1t7d0
ext_bus 2 0/0/2/0 c720 CLAIMED INTERFACE SCSI C87x Ultra d
target 3 0/0/2/0.7 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
ctl 2 0/0/2/0.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator
/dev/rscsi/c2t7d0
ext_bus 3 0/0/2/1 c720 CLAIMED INTERFACE SCSI C87x Fast Wd
target 4 0/0/2/1.0 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
unknown -1 0/0/2/1.0.0 UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN HP C1537A
target 5 0/0/2/1.7 tgt CLAIMED DEVICE
ctl 3 0/0/2/1.7.0 sctl CLAIMED DEVICE Initiator
/dev/rscsi/c3t7d0
tty 1 0/0/4/0 func0 CLAIMED INTERFACE PCI BaseSystem ()
tty 0 0/0/4/1 asio0 CLAIMED INTERFACE PCI Serial (103c)
/dev/GSPdiag1 /dev/tty0p0 /dev/tty0p4
/dev/diag/mux0 /dev/tty0p2
/dev/mux0 /dev/tty0p3
ba 1 0/1 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Ad)
ba 2 0/2 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Ad)
ba 3 0/3 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Ad)
ba 4 0/4 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Ad)
ba 5 0/5 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Ad)
ba 6 0/8 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Ad)
ba 7 0/9 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Ad)
ba 8 0/10 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Ad)
lan 1 0/10/0/0 btlan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A5230A/B5509Bn
/dev/diag/lan1 /dev/ether1 /dev/lan1
ba 9 0/12 lba CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Local PCI Bus Ad)
pbc 0 32 pbc CLAIMED BUS_NEXUS Bus Converter
processor 0 33 processor CLAIMED PROCESSOR Processor
memory 0 192 memory CLAIMED MEMORY Memory
#

and thanks agan for attenton .

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

Your tape is here:

unknown -1 0/0/2/1.0.0 UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN HP C1537A

You don't have the driver included.

Use SAM and add the "stape" kernel driver, reboot and you will see it.

[Abd El-Rahman]

Really i'm thankful for you very much
it is running now :D
thank you my friend .

[Abd El-Rahman]

Really i'm thankful for you very much
it is running now :D
thank you my friend .

but can i ask another question about this if i didn't do this using sam can i download the driver for this tape drive and install it using swinstall or i can't do domething like this only if i enabled stapes from sam ?
ihope that what i need to ask is clear for you ?

[Torsten.]

There is no other installable driver - just the kernel driver module. You need to include the module into the kernel, generate a new kernel and boot from. SAM does all the needed steps for you.

[Abd El-Rahman]

this is very good
but if i have problem in setting of my screen so that SAM can't be shown properly -and i faced this yesterday -

so there is no other way using command line to load module into the current kernel ?
i think this is very strange ? or what ?

i mean is there is nothing like #modeprobe in linux or also #insmod

but any way thanks for your attention

[Torsten.]

Yes, there is.

Start reading here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/kminstall.1M.html

[Abd El-Rahman]

thank you very much
now i'm satisfied :D