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AIX Version 4.3 System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices

Chapter 21. Tape Drives

This chapter discusses system management functions related to tape drives. Many of these functions change or get information from the device configuration database, which contains information about the devices on your system. The device configuration database consists of the predefined configuration database, which contains information about all possible types of devices supported on the system, and the customized configuration database, which contains information about the particular devices currently on the system. For the operating system to make use of a tape drive, or any other device, the device must be defined in the customized configuration database and must have a device type defined in the predefined configuration database.

Basic tasks for Tape Drives are shown in the following table. Other topics discussed in this chapter are:

Tape Drive Tasks
Web-based System Manager:    wsm devices fast path
(Devices application)

-OR-
Task SMIT Fast Path Command or File
List All Defined Tape Drives smit lsdtpe lsdev -C -c tape -H
List All Supported Tape Drives smit lsstpe lsdev -P -c tape -F "type subclass description" -H
Add New Tape Drives Automatically smit cfgmgr cfgmgr
Add a User-Specified Tape Drive smit addtpe mkdev -c tape -t '8mm' -s 'scsi' -p 'scsi0' -w '4,0' -a extfm=yes
Show Characteristics of a Tape Drive smit chgtpe lsdev -C -l rmt0
lsattr -D -l rmt0
1
Change Attributes of a Tape Drive smit chgtpe chdev -l rmt0 -a block_size='512' -a mode=no1
Remove a Tape Drive smit rmvtpe rmdev -l 'rmt0'1
Generate an Error Report for a Tape Drive smit errpt See Error Logging Tasks in in AIX Problem Solving Guide and Reference
Trace a Tape Drive smit trace_link See Starting the Trace Facility in in AIX Problem Solving Guide and Reference
Note:
  1. Where rmt0 is the logical name of a tape drive

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