milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) (10/09/89)
Has anyone had any luck getting hp-ux to deal with an exabyte 8mm tape
drive? One has been loaned to me, but I have been unable to get tar
or dump to recognize the device. I am running hp-ux 6.5 on a 370.
The scsi driver is ok, as I have a couple of wrens mounted and working
well. Any help much appreciated.
-jem
John Milburn - Advanced Light Source - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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In article <3919@helios.ee.lbl.gov> milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) writes: >Has anyone had any luck getting hp-ux to deal with an exabyte 8mm tape >drive? One has been loaned to me, but I have been unable to get tar >or dump to recognize the device. I am running hp-ux 6.5 on a 370. >The scsi driver is ok, as I have a couple of wrens mounted and working >well. Any help much appreciated. We are using Exabyte 8mm drives from Perfect Byte on our HP 9000/360 cluster servers under HP-UX 6.5. The SCSI device driver included in HP-UX will not work with tape drives (this is documented in one of the HP manuals). We are on the third revision of a SCSI driver supplied by Perfect Byte, which is now working without problems. You'll have to contact the vendor for your 8mm drive and ask for an HP-UX SCSI driver that supports the drive. HP support for SCSI is not enthusiastic. Their "monitor" program, for example, cannot display I/O statistics for drives on SCSI interfaces. Since third party SCSI drives are the best mass storage solution for HP file servers I hope HP will improve their SCSI support in future releases of HP-UX. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - O John Lees, Manager of Systems A. H. Case Center for Computer OoO and Network Software Services Aided Engineering & Manufacturing /O lees@frith.egr.msu.edu College of Engineering | ...!uunet!frith!lees 112 Engineering Building (|) lees@msuegr.bitnet Michigan State University | flower CompuServe 74106,1324 East Lansing, MI 48824-1226 __|__ power
dpb@viking.UUCP (Don Bennett) (10/10/89)
>HP support for SCSI is not enthusiastic. Their "monitor" program, for >example, cannot display I/O statistics for drives on SCSI interfaces. >Since thirdc party SCSI drives are the best mass storage solution for >HP file servers I hope HP will improve their SCSI support in future >releases of HP-UX. Perhaps the SCSI support will improve - HP was showing an optical drive at SIGGRAPH that (at least at the time) came with a SCSI interface and no HPIB. Don Bennett (408)433-3311 dpb@frame.com Frame Technology