Install an IBM® tape
device driver to use an IBM SCSI
tape device.
About this task
See the following documentation for instructions about
installing and configuring IBM tape
device drivers:
After you complete the installation procedure
in the
IBM Tape Device
Drivers Installation and User's Guide, different messages
are issued, depending on the device driver that you are installing:
- If you are installing the device driver for an IBM SCSI Tape drive or library, you receive:
rmtx Available
or smcx Available
Note
the value of x, which is assigned automatically
by the system. To determine the special file name of your device,
use the /dev/ prefix with the name provided by
the system. For example: - If the message is rmt0 Available, the special
file name for the drive is /dev/rmt0.
- If the message is smc2 Available, the special
file name for the media changer device is /dev/smc2.
The file name might have more characters at the end to indicate
different operating characteristics, but these characters are not
needed by
Tivoli® Storage
Manager.
Use the base file name in the
Device= parameter
of the
DEFINE PATH command to assign a device to
a drive (
/dev/rmtx) or a library (
/dev/smcx).
Note: This
applies to the IBM device driver
only and the device type of this class must NOT be GENERICTAPE.
After you complete the installation procedure in
the
IBM Tape Device Drivers
Installation and User's Guide, different messages are
issued, depending on the device driver that you are installing:
- If you are installing the device driver for an IBM 3581, 3583, 3584, or 3590 Model B11, you
receive:
IBMtapex Available
or IBMChangerx Available
Note
the value of x, which is assigned automatically
by the system. To determine the special file name of your device,
use the /dev/IBM prefix with the name provided
by the system. For example: - If the message is IBMtape0 Available, the special
file name for the drive is /dev/IBMtape0.
- If the message is IBMChanger2 Available, the
special file name for the media changer device is /dev/IBMChanger2.
The file name might have more characters at the end to indicate
different operating characteristics, but these characters are not
needed by
Tivoli Storage
Manager.
Use the base file name in the
Device= parameter
of the
DEFINE PATH command to assign a device to
a drive (
/dev/IBMtapex) or a library (
/dev/IBMChangerx).
Note: This
applies to the IBM device driver
only and the device type of this class must NOT be GENERICTAPE.
After you complete the installation procedure in
the
IBM Tape Device Drivers
Installation and User's Guide, the IBM device driver creates a set of special file
names for each device. To see the special file names, issue the following
command:
ls -la /dev/rmt
The output shows that
the special files are symbolic links into the
/devices tree
of the file system. These files have the form:
- /dev/rmt/xst
- /dev/rmt/xsmc
Where
x is a number. The file name might have
more characters (n, b, c) at the end to indicate different operating
characteristics, but these characters are not needed by
Tivoli Storage
Manager. Use the
base file name in the
Device= parameter of the
DEFINE
PATH command to assign a device to a drive (
/dev/rmt/xst)
or a library (
/dev/rmt/xsmc).
Note: This applies
to the IBM device driver only
and the device type of this class must NOT be GENERICTAPE.