Use the 'tape' command to display status etc.
Error messages are pretty much all together in /usr/adm/messages or /usr/adm/syslog
will display the exact version.
There is also a script that you can download from SCO support page that reports useful information. The SCO Group, Inc. | Support | Support Services
There is also the Compaq EFS (Extended Feature Supplement) that may have been installed, you can use it for hardware diagnostics. This supplement is on the Proliant Faststart CD.
I'm running SCO OS 505 on a Compaq proliant 1600, and my tape drive will just not work. It was working properly and whent to Sh?ts when I tried to get the cd rom working. I have uninstalled any configured tape drive and rebooted and then configured a tape drive and rebooted still nothing. I'm... (4 Replies)
I have a dlt tape drive on a AIX 5.1 machine, I have no idea how to backup to this thing, would I just mount it can copy over to it, not sure the commands or where to begin? Can anyone help, or point me to documentation.... (14 Replies)
Hi,
I need to restore my tape backup, when I type "tape status" it gives;
status : ready beginning-of-tape write-protected
soft errors : 0
hard errors : 0
underruns : 3
but... (4 Replies)
I have tape drive in one Lpar. when i saw that time tape is in defined state. After that i deleted the tape drive using the rmdev -R command. Then fired the cfgmgr -v command. But I am not getting the tape drive. Now the drive is even not in defined state also. It is not shown the tape drive. How... (1 Reply)
Hello everyone
I have a problem with one of my drives in an aix box. The library is a 3583 and Aix is 5.3 TL9
The problem was that the fibre channel not work and I change the fibre but when I logging to the aix box I got this in the rmt3
lsdev | grep rmt
rmt0 Available 03-08-00-6,0... (4 Replies)
Hey folks,
Linux admin here, forced to use Opensolaris to try to use ufsdump/ufsrestore to get some data of some old tapes.
I've got Opensolaris 2009.06 on x86 and a Sony SDX-700V.
As a "control" experiment, I booted the system with a Linux live CD and the tape drive worked perfectly.
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Using Redhat 5.7. I have Quantum tape drive connected to the server. I am trying to install the Netbackup software. Just wondering how can I see the Quantum is connected to the server. is any command I run to see the tape drive is connected?
I used to work on Solaris, I used to do... (1 Reply)
I have used ioscan -fnC tape and the system identified the tape drive. what is the command to show a listing of what is on the tape? I have used ls /dev/rmt/rmt0 to no avail. can anyone help?
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aoe-mkshelf
aoe-mkshelf(8) System Manager's Manual aoe-mkshelf(8)NAME
aoe-mkshelf - create special device files for one shelf address
SYNOPSIS
aoe-mkshelf {device-dir} {shelf-address}
env n_partitions=1 aoe-mkshelf {device-dir} {shelf-address}
DESCRIPTION
The aoe-mkshelf command is not needed on systems that have udev installed and is incompatible with aoe drivers that have the aoe_dyndevs
module parameter set to 1.
Systems lacking udev and having an aoe driver that uses static minor device numbers can use aoe-mkshelf to create the block special files
necessary to access the AoE devices with the given shelf address.
All aoe drivers prior to aoe6-50 use static minor device numbers. Versions 50 and up use dynamic minor device numbers when the module
parameter aoe_dyndevs=1 is set.
If you are using static minor device numbers and your aoe driver supports only one partition per device (whole-disk partitions), then the
device files must match, and you should use the n_partitions environment variable described below.
Arguments
device-dir
This should be the name of the directory where the block device files will be created.
shelf-address
This is the AoE major address, or shelf address, for which to create device nodes. For example, specifying a shelf address of 1
means that the e1.* device nodes will be created in device-dir.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
If the n_partitions variable is set in the environment, it will override the default number of partitions per aoe disk, namely 16.
EXAMPLE
In this example, the root user on a host named nai creates special files for using the aoe disks in shelf 7. Then he remembers that the
driver doesn't have partition support, so the command is called again with n_partitions set to 1.
nai:~# aoe-mkshelf /dev/etherd 7
nai:~# ls /dev/etherd/e7.* | wc -l
160
nai:~# rm /dev/etherd/e7.*
nai:~# n_partitions=1 aoe-mkshelf /dev/etherd 7
nai:~# ls /dev/etherd/e7.* | wc -l
10
nai:~#
SEE ALSO aoe-discover(8), aoe-interfaces(8), aoe-mkdevs(8), aoe-stat(8), aoetools(8), udev(7).
AUTHOR
Ed L. Cashin (ecashin@coraid.com)
aoe-mkshelf(8)