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Hi,

We have some IBM LTO tape drives connect over SAN.
I have the following questions :-

1) Command that can list the tape drive details like who is manufacturer, model number, make etc etc

2) I would like to know what are the key differences between IBM LTO Generation 1 and Generation 2 tape drives ?

Thanks in advance.

iostat -E will probably give you what you need.

Speed and capacity are the differences, if you want more detail than that I suggest you try google.

perhabs this help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open

gP

Guys..
Looks like you have not understood my questions.

If I have to get the details of the drive model and other details
iostat shows the system io statistics..

bash-3.00$ iostat -E
dad1 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Model: HDS722580VLAT20 Revision: V32OA62A Serial No: VN62GECBEH
Size: 80.02GB <80023879680 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0
sd1 Soft Errors: 5 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: JLMS Product: XJ-HD166S Revision: D3S4 Serial No:
Size: 0.14GB <137889792 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 5 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

Thanks reborg.

I got what I was looking for.