----------- My problem ------------------------------------------------------
Equipment: Digital Unix 3.2D
Tape TZ877 in HSZ40B
We are looking for software that allows loading any tape. Example: Tape 5 is
loaded and now I want to load tape 2 again.
Digital offers a "Robot software", but this software doesn't work with tapes
in HSZ40B.
Who can help?
W.Rost
--------------- Your answers ----------------------------------------------
Sender: Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com
Have a look at the
CLCMC311 CAM Medium Changer Driver V3.1A
software. Located on one of the SPL CDs
From: gege_at_cal.enst.fr (Why not ?)
we use a tz877 standalone - directly on a SCSI bus, no HSZxx- , with the
CLC software from digital. The tz877 itself is managed via the nsrjb program
that comes with nsr, but I guess the API is available for writing a program
to
do this, if one does not already exists...
From: alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Odds are, the "robot software" you referred to is the Media
Robot Utility, for which I'm the responsible software engineer.
It is true that MRU isn't support with drives connected to
an HSZ family controller. That's because we haven't complete
the qualification.
I have tested a TZ875, TZ885 and TZ867 on the HSZ and they
all work fine. The experience has show me that you will
want to use a LUN 0 device for the tape and then a non-
LUN 0 for the loader, LUN 1 being the simplest choice.
Based on my experience with these drives on our HSZ40C
I don't think you'll have any problems with MRU and the
loader.
To setup the logical unit for the changer:
HSZ> add pass device_name bus target 1
HSZ> add unit pT0L device_name
Where the T is the target-id, and L is the logical unit
number. Using a real example:
HSZ> add pass TZ867 1 4 0
HSZ> add unit p101 TZ867
In this example, my TZ867 is on bus 1, target 4 of the
backend SCSI adapter. The tape drive is LUN 0 and the
loader LUN 1. The host side logical unit I associate with
the Loader is target 1, LUN 1. Since my HSZ40 is on bus
1, it shows up as mc9b on the host side.
Received on Tue Sep 16 1997 - 18:52:06 NZST