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Contents<br />

Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />

Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />

The team that wrote this redbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />

Special notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />

<strong>IBM</strong> trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

Comments welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

Part 1. Setting up <strong>LTO</strong> <strong>Ultrium</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

Chapter 1. Introduction to <strong>LTO</strong> <strong>Ultrium</strong> <strong>with</strong> UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />

1.1 <strong>LTO</strong> overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />

1.2 <strong>LTO</strong> development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />

1.2.1 <strong>LTO</strong> enhancements since introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

1.2.2 <strong>LTO</strong> <strong>Ultrium</strong> models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

1.2.3 <strong>IBM</strong> 3580 <strong>Ultrium</strong> Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

1.2.4 <strong>IBM</strong> 3581 <strong>Ultrium</strong> Tape Autoloader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />

1.2.5 <strong>IBM</strong> 3583 <strong>Ultrium</strong> Scalable Tape Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

1.2.6 <strong>IBM</strong> 3584 <strong>Ultrium</strong> UltraScalable Tape Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

1.3 Hardware and operating system platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

1.3.1 Hardware server platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

1.3.2 ISV storage management software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

1.4 Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />

1.4.1 SCSI direct attach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />

1.4.2 SAN Data Gateway attach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

1.4.3 The Integrated SAN Data Gateway Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

1.4.4 Determining the number of drives on a SCSI bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

1.5 Host bus adapters and device drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

1.6 LVD versus HVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />

1.6.1 What is LVD and HVD?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />

1.6.2 Why is this important?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />

1.7 SCSI HD68 and VHDCI cable connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />

Chapter 2. Basic <strong>LTO</strong> setup for UNIX systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />

2.1 Installing library and device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

2.2 <strong>LTO</strong> driver installation for AIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

2.2.1 Atape driver installation using the command line interface . . . . . . . . 33<br />

© Copyright <strong>IBM</strong> Corp. 2002 3

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