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DAT Drive configuration (Urgent)

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by dattatray_b

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Dear Friends,

I am having HP9000 E class (E45 ) HP server with HP-UX 10.X. I am having dds model HP35470A (capacity 2/8)which is working fine.

I have removed the dds2 (DAT) Drive Seagate STD 28000N (capacity 4/8)from Sun Ultra Enterprise II and fix it to HP9000 E class machine it has dected the tape drive and given tape device /dev/rmt/3m.

I tried the tar backup with following command :
# tar cvf /dev/rmt/3m .
It is giving me error :- can not write device /dev/rmt/3m .

Kind ly help me st the earlist.

Regards

Dattatray V. Bhagwat

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by cavedweller

If you were running Solaris I would suggest reconfiguring your devices with "boot -r". If HP-UX has a similar method I would try it.

What do you get back from the tape status command? "mt -f /dev/rmt/3" status is the Solaris command.

Did you restore proper terminations after you reconfigured the scsi devices?

by brs3500

On HP-UX try fuser -fu to see any body has hold on that device and also if you want to regenerate the devices... do following
remove /dev/rmt/3m and then run inst -e
also make sure that your SCSI CTL drivers are installed on Kernel drivers...

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