Installing and configuring IBM device drivers for IBM tape devices

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 tape drive or library, the following messages are returned:

rmtx Available

or

smcx Available

Note the value of x, which is assigned by the IBM tape device driver. To determine the special file name of your device, issue one of the following commands:

• For tape drives, ls -l /dev/rmt*
• For tape libraries, ls -l /dev/smc*

The file name might have more characters at the end to indicate different operating characteristics, but these characters are not needed by IBM Storage Protect. For IBM device drivers, 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).

After you install the device driver, you can use the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) to configure non-IBM tape drives and tape libraries. Complete the following steps:

1. Run the SMIT program.
2. Click Devices.
3. Click IBM Storage Protect Devices.
4. Click Fibre Channel SAN Attached devices.
5. Click Discover Devices Supported by IBM Storage Protect. Wait for the discovery process to be completed.
6. Go back to the Fibre Channel SAN Attached devices menu, and click List Attributes of a Discovered Device.

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 LTO or 3592 device, the following messages are returned:

IBMtapex Available

or

IBMChangerx Available

Note the value of x, which is assigned by the IBM tape device driver. To determine the special file name of your device, issue one of the following commands:

• For tape drives, ls -l /dev/IBMtape*
• For tape libraries, ls -l /dev/IBMChange*

The file name might have more characters at the end to indicate different operating characteristics, but these characters are not needed by IBM Storage Protect. For IBM device drivers, 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).

For Windows operating systems, IBM Storage Protect provides two device drivers:

Passthru device driver

If the tape device manufacturer provides a SCSI device driver, install the IBM Storage Protect passthru device driver.

SCSI device driver for tape devices

If the tape device manufacturer does not provide a SCSI device driver, install the IBM Storage Protect SCSI device driver for tape devices. The driver file name is tsmscsi64.sys.

For instructions about installing and configuring IBM tape device drivers, see the IBM Tape Device Drivers Installation and User's Guide. After you install the IBM tape device driver, the server specifies a special file name, TapeX, for IBM tape drives, or ChangerY, for IBM medium changers. For an IBM Storage Protect SCSI device driver or an IBM Storage Protect passthru device driver, you can issue the Windows operating system command, regedit, to verify the device special file name and driver. The IBM Storage Protect server also provides a utility to check the device for the Windows operating system. The utility, tsmdlst, is packaged with the server package. To use the utility, complete the following steps:

1. Ensure that the host bus adapter application programming interface (API) is installed.
2. To obtain device information from the host system, type:

   tsmdlst