IBM (AIX) Servers and Workstations 19
IBM (AIX) Servers and
Workstations
Determining the SCSI ID
Before you configure your system to support your drive, you need to
determine which SCSI ID to use. IDs must be unique for each device attached
to the SCSI bus. To list the existing devices, use the following command:
% lsdev -C |grep SCSI
This will produce output that looks similar to:
scsi0 Available 00-00-0S Standard SCSI I/O Controller
hdisk0 Available 00-00-0S-0 1.0 GB SCSI Disk Drive
rmt1 Defined 00-00-0S-2,0 Other SCSI Tape Drive
The SCSI ID is in the series
00-00-0S-X,0
, where
X
is the SCSI ID. Review
the list of existing SCSI IDs and choose an available ID to assign to the new
tape drive.
Configuring the Device Files
To install a DDS-format drive on an IBM workstation you need to create the
appropriate device files for the drive.
Note Do
not
choose the
smit
option of “
4mm2gb
” as the Tape
Device Type. This is reserved for Connor drives. If you use it
with HP drives, you will get the error “
Device to be
configured does not match the physical device
at the specified connection location
”.
To change to variable block mode, use the following procedure:
1 If you are using a graphics terminal running X-Windows, then at a
Windows terminal, type:
smit tape
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