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HP LTO Ultrium 4 drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS configuration guide 19
3 HP (OpenVMS) servers and workstations
NOTE: Only SCSI drives are supported on Alpha Server systems.
Determining attached devices
After connecting the tape drive to your system, boot OpenVMS and check for the presence of the
new tape device. Execute the following commands.
$ sho dev mk
Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt
Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt
MKD300: Online 0
↑ use this value in the next command line
$ sho dev MKD300/full
Magtape SIT058$MKD300:, device type HP Ultrium 4-SCSI, is online,
file-oriented device, available to cluster, error logging is enabled,
controller supports compaction (compaction disabled), device supports
fastskip (per_io).
Error count 0 Operations completed 0
Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W
Reference count 0 Default buffer size 2048
Density default Format Normal-11
Volume status: no-unload on dismount, beginning-of-tape, odd parity.
What next?
You are now ready to begin using your tape drive. Please consult your OpenVMS system
documentation for details.