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Operating Systems HP-UX tape drive access/backup Post 302194629 by davel1000 on Tuesday 13th of May 2008 10:27:55 AM
Old 05-13-2008
tape drive access/backup

Need assistance:

Have HP Visualize C3600 workstation, HP-UX 10.20, and HP C6364A 12GB DDS-3 SCSI DAT drive. I am not a UNIX programmer and did not configure/build workstation.

Ran ioscan and shows up as HPC1537A, class tape, and 10/0/15/0.2.0. Switch on back of unit is denoted SCSI ID and is set to 2.

In SAM, I went to Peripheral Devices, then Tape Drives, and shows up as:
Hardware Path 10/0/15/0.2.0, driver stape, description C1537A 12GB
DDS3 Data Compression Tape Drive (DAT).

Questions:
1 How and what commands do I use to determine where the drive is located i.e. path?
2 How and what commands do I use to access/read from/write to drive?
3 Is the C1537A referenced above correct? I presume that it is and it may be simply internal manufacturer number and indeed correct reference to
C6364A.

An expeditious response is needed and appreciated. Any and all assistance is wholly appreciated.

Thanks in advance. DJ.
 

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CD(9)							   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual						     CD(9)

NAME
cd -- CDROM driver for the CAM SCSI subsystem DESCRIPTION
The cd device driver provides a read only interface for CDROM drives (SCSI type 5) and WORM drives (SCSI type 4) that support CDROM type com- mands. Some drives do not behave as the driver expects. See the QUIRKS section for information on possible flags. QUIRKS
Each CD-ROM device can have different interpretations of the SCSI spec. This can lead to drives requiring special handling in the driver. The following is a list of quirks that the driver recognize. CD_Q_NO_TOUCH This flag tells the driver not to probe the drive at attach time to see if there is a disk in the drive and find out what size it is. This flag is currently unimplemented in the CAM cd driver. CD_Q_BCD_TRACKS This flag is for broken drives that return the track numbers in packed BCD instead of straight decimal. If the drive seems to skip tracks (tracks 10-15 are skipped) then you have a drive that is in need of this flag. CD_Q_NO_CHANGER This flag tells the driver that the device in question is not a changer. This is only necessary for a CDROM device with multiple luns that are not a part of a changer. CD_Q_CHANGER This flag tells the driver that the given device is a multi-lun changer. In general, the driver will figure this out auto- matically when it sees a LUN greater than 0. Setting this flag only has the effect of telling the driver to run the initial read capacity command for LUN 0 of the changer through the changer scheduling code. CD_Q_10_BYTE_ONLY This flag tells the driver that the given device only accepts 10 byte MODE SENSE/MODE SELECT commands. In general these types of quirks should not be added to the cd(4) driver. The reason is that the driver does several things to attempt to determine whether the drive in question needs 10 byte commands. First, it issues a CAM Path Inquiry command to determine whether the protocol that the drive speaks typically only allows 10 byte commands. (ATAPI and USB are two prominent exam- ples of protocols where you generally only want to send 10 byte commands.) Then, if it gets an ILLEGAL REQUEST error back from a 6 byte MODE SENSE or MODE SELECT command, it attempts to send the 10 byte version of the command instead. The only reason you would need a quirk is if your drive uses a protocol (e.g., SCSI) that typically does not have a problem with 6 byte commands. FILES
/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_cd.c is the driver source file. SEE ALSO
cd(4), scsi(4) HISTORY
The cd manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2. AUTHORS
This manual page was written by John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.org>. It was updated for CAM and FreeBSD 3.0 by Kenneth Merry <ken@FreeBSD.org>. BSD
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