Urgent help with IBM tape drive

[Tim Medford]

I'm at our disaster hotsite and have been unable to read my tapes. They were created using fbackup on my rp5470 using an HP ultrium lto drive, hpux 11i.

The tape drive at the recovery site is an IBM ULT3580-TD1. I can see it, and all the device files are there, but whenever I run tar or frecover against it it says:

"Unable to open or identify device at /dev/rmt/c0t2d0BEST"..blah blah..

The driver it's using is stape. I'm wondering if some special IBM driver needs to be loaded.

Has anyone else been able to talk to this kind of IBM drive?

Thanks!!!

[Dietmar Konermann]

At first try to install the latest stape cumulative patch on your system. If the problem persists then try with IBM's atdd driver package, downloadable from:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/HPUX

Best regards...
Dietmar.

[Steven E. Protter]

It would be useful to see an

ioscan -fnC tape

command output. If you say you see the drive, I am assuming it shows up claimed.

If the drive is supported at all, you are goinig to want to be on the latest Hardware Enable Patch set. It would not hurt to have the June 2003 or September 2003 Gold Pack.

Beyond that, this seems like an IBM issue.

I'm not sure that drive needs the stape driver.

We are planning a DR center right now, and this thread is going to management to make sure we get the same hardware in the DR center as the Data center.

SEP