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Operating Systems AIX command to display my tape drives (rmt's) Post 302178308 by jwholey on Tuesday 25th of March 2008 08:00:56 AM
Old 03-25-2008
Hello all,

Here's the deal. lscfg -pvd rmt* does give the serial number on a different line. I'm trying to get the output on the same line.
The reason I need the SN# is that upon reboot of the AIX server, the /dev/rmt# assigments sometimes change. Of course, the serial number of the drive never changes. The server in question is the library manager for TSM. So, in TSM, if my /dev/rmt#, drive definitions and sn#'s don't match up in my configuration file, the client TSM Servers are unable to get mounts. So if there's a quick way to print "rmt sn#" on the same line, I can quickly get a snapshot of what things looked like prior to reboot and after reboot.

Thanks.
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

tapeinfo

TAPEINFO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       TAPEINFO(1)

NAME

       tapeinfo - report SCSI tape device info

SYNOPSIS

       tapeinfo -f <scsi-generic-device>

DESCRIPTION

       The  tapeinfo  command  reads  various information from SCSI tape drives that is not generally available via most vendors' tape drivers. It
       issues raw commands directly to the tape drive, using either the  operating  system's  SCSI  generic  device  (	e.g.  /dev/sg0	on  Linux,
       /dev/pass0 on FreeBSD) or the raw SCSI I/O ioctl on a tape device on some operating systems.

       One  good  time	to  use 'tapeinfo' is immediately after a tape i/o operation has failed. On tape drives that support HP's 'tapealert' API,
       'tapeinfo' will report a more exact description of what went wrong.

       Do be aware that 'tapeinfo' is not a substitute for your operating system's own 'mt' or similar tape driver control program. It is intended
       to supplement, not replace, programs like 'mt' that access your operating system's tape driver in order to report or set information.

OPTIONS

       The first argument, given following -f , is the SCSI generic device corresponding to your tape drive.  Consult your operating system's doc-
       umentation for more information (for example, under Linux these are generally start at /dev/sg0 under FreeBSD these start at /dev/pass0).

       Under FreeBSD, 'camcontrol devlist' will tell you what SCSI devices you have, along with which 'pass' device controls  them.  Under  Linux,
       "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" will tell you what SCSI devices you have.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       This program has only been tested on Linux with a limited number of tape drives (HP DDS4, Seagate AIT).

AVAILABILITY

       tapeinfo  is  currently being maintained by Eric Lee Green <eric@badtux.org> formerly of Enhanced Software Technologies Inc. The 'mtx' home
       page is http://mtx.sourceforge.net and the actual code is currently available there and via CVS from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx/ .

SEE ALSO

       mt(1),mtx(1),scsitape(1)

								    TAPEINFO1.0 						       TAPEINFO(1)
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