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- From: curt@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu (Curt Freeland)
- Subject: QIC tapes on HP 730 systems
- Message-ID: <curt.725917201@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Summary: HPux 8.07, Archive QIC 150
- Keywords: Need help
- Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- Date: 1 Jan 93 19:40:01 GMT
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- I am trying to get an HP730 running for an aquaintance.
- When he received the system, a 1Gb disk, Sun QIC 150
- (actually an Archive drive) tape drive, and the CDROM drive
- were all addressed as unit 4. Obviously, something had to
- change to make it all work. Somewhere I found a partial list that
- said disk drives could appear as SCSI ID's 6,5,4. CDROM drives
- could appear as SCSI ID 3. Floppy drives could appear as SCSI ID 0.
-
- I moved the CDROM to unit 3 (/dev/dsk/3s0), and it seems to be
- happy now, as I have mounted, and perused stuff from a CD. If I
- put the 1Gb disk on the system as SCSI ID 4, it will also work
- (/dev/dsk/4s0), but it does not appear to be present when I change
- it's address to SCSI ID 1 or 2. I know where to look in BSD style
- kernel config files to find the device ID to device name mapping,
- but cannot make heads nor tails of the Sys-V stuff.
-
- I am also trying to connect the QIC 150 cart tape drive to the
- system. The hardware seems to know the drive is out there as
- SCSI ID 4, as shown by the system finding it as a bootable device.
- The problem is that I cannot get HPux to talk to the drive via tar,
- dd, mt, ct, or any other command I try. Again, I cannot find the
- equivalent of the "conf/MACHINE_NAME" file in the kernel stuff to
- know what unit number a SCSI tape drive should be. Nor can I seem
- to make a major/minor device capable of talking to the drive as
- SCSI ID 4.
-
- System configuration is:
- HP 730 running HPux 8.07
- Two 426 Meg internal disks (SCSI ID 6 is /, SCSI ID 5 is user files)
- One external 1Gb disk (SCSI ID 2)
- One CD ROM drive (SCSI ID 3)
- One Archive QIC 150 Tape drive (SCSI ID 4)
-
- I would appreciate any help on how to make the tape drive talk to
- HPux, and making the 1Gb disk talk to the system as SCSI ID 2.
-
- Thanks
- --curt
- --
- Curt Freeland
- Manager, Systems Engineering
- Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- (curt@ecn.purdue.edu) (317) 494-3715
-