howdy,
> I've got an AlphaSever DS20E running Tru64 Unix v4.0F. my tape drive has
> a flashing light over a "!" inside a triangle symbol. I'm trying to
> determine the exact make/model of the drive so I can attempt to locate a
> user manual for same.
Thanks to all for the great and quick responses. I discovered that I
have a SONY SDT-9000 tape drive. The flashing light turned out to be the
cleaning tape required indicator.
regards to all from NYC,
kevin
the "heart" of the responses follow:
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Try "scu scan edt" followed by "scu show edt" Should give you something
to
work with.
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issue a : mt -f /dev/YOUR_DEVICE status
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On Tru64, the "file" command might help.
Alternatively, use "sys_check" - this provides you with much output
(HTML) describing both hard- and software.
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mt status command
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There are a couple of ways to get this info:
1. Look at the listing produced by "uerf -R | more". This must be done
as
root. Scroll down to the place where the listing shows info that was
logged at the last reboot and search for something that looks like a
tape
drive. (On our system, it is a SCSI device and is a TZ89 DLT drive.)
2. Enter "mt status" to look at info on the default drive. If it's not
the
default, use the "-f" switch on this command; see the man page on mt.
3. Use the scu command. This might not give you any more info than the
above, and I can't think of the exact syntax...
4. There is probably some GUI-based tool that can be reached easily from
the CDE environment when logging into the main console.
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scu show edt
or read the startup log with:
uerf -R | more
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While logged in or su'd to root, type the command
# file /dev/nrmt0h
It should display the device info, including model name.
e.g.
# file /dev/nrmt0h
/dev/nrmt0h: character special (9/54275) SCSI #3 DLT4000 tape #8
(SCSI ID #5) (SCSI LUN #0) errors = 0/26 offline
additional info is available using scu:
scu -f /dev/nrmt0h
scu> sho dev
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The easiest is to run file /dev/rrz*c on the command line.
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# scu -f /dev/rmt#h show device
The Vendor ID, Product ID and Firmware revision level from
the SCSI Inquiry data are at the end. Replace the # with
the appropriate tape unit number to get the right drive.
You can also go through the boot messages, since the
Inquiry data is printed there as well.
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look at the messages file from llast boot.
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Try this:
scu scan edt all
scu show edt all
This should list every scsi device you have.
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you can find the name in the /var/adm/messages file.
If you want to see the serial number do:
scu -f (device file of tape)
scu> show inq page
Received on Fri Oct 12 2001 - 19:48:06 NZDT