HP LTO - How to Attach and Configure Drives to Linux Host

Asset ID:	1-71-1015662.1
Update Date:	2017-06-05
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Solution 1015662.1 : HP LTO - How to Attach and Configure Drives to Linux Host

Applies to:

HP LTO1 Tape Drive - Version Not Applicable and later
HP LTO2 Tape Drive - Version Not Applicable and later
HP LTO3 Tape Drive - Version Not Applicable and later
All Platforms

Goal

Linux
HP LTO
How to attach HP drive to Linux host
How to configure HP drive to Linux host
Drive attachment
If more information is required refer to your server Operating Systems kernel documentation.
HP LTO Gen-2
HP LTO Gen-1
HP LTO Gen-3
Drive configuration

Solution

Configuring for Linux systems

No changes are needed to support Ultrium on Linux platforms.

However you should ensure that you have the relevant drivers loaded.

To see the device drivers loaded currently, execute an lsmod command, this will give output like:

- Module Size Used by

- sgm 4376 1

- ide-scsi 7200 0

- lockd 30792 1

- sunrpc 53316 1

- st 24656 0 **

- ncr53c8xx 52096 1 **

- aic7xxx 136184 2 **

** The lines of interest here are:

Line	Description
st	This is the tape driver. Its presence in the output of the lsmod command shows that the tape driver is loaded.
ncr53c8xx	This is a SCSI chipset driver for the LSI Logic family of HBAs (amongst others).

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