Sun Microsystems SPARCstorage Library Manuel utilisateur

SPARCstorageLibrary

X-OptionRack-mountedUser’sGuide

Part No.: 802-2345-11

Revision A, June 1995

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Contents

Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

1. Operating the SPARCstorage Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

1.1 Understanding the Operator Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

1.1.1 Using the Operator Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

1.2 Using the Control Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

1.2.1 Changing the Control Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

1.3 Interrupting the Tape Library’s Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

1.4 Resuming the Tape Library’s Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7

1.5 Resetting the Tape Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7

1.6 Security Options for the Tape Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7

1.6.1 Enabling or Disabling Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

1.7 Tape Drive LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9

1.8 Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

1.8.1 Testing the Tape Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

1.8.2 Testing the Internal Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

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1.8.3 Testing the Cartridge Handling Mechanism . . . . . . 1-11

1.9 Media Movement Control Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12

1.9.1 Sequential Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12

1.9.2 Random Access Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13

1.9.3 Manual Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13

1.10 How to Setup Solstice Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14

2. SPARCstorage Library Menu Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

2.1 Primary Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

2.2 Interface Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

2.2.1 Control Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

2.2.2 25-Pin, 9-Pin, and 4-Pin Serial Port Modes . . . . . . . 2-6

2.3 Configuration Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

2.3.1 Set SCSI IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

2.3.2 Set SCSI Parity Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

2.3.3 Sequential Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

2.3.4 Adjust Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

2.3.5 Back Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

2.3.6 Set Date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

2.3.7 Set Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

2.3.8 Set Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

2.3.9 Set Serial Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12

2.4 Maintenance Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

2.4.1 Clean Drive Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

2.4.2 Demo Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

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2.4.3 Diagnostics Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

2.5 Library Information Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

2.5.1 SCSI Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

2.5.2 Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

2.5.3 System Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29

2.5.4 Command History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31

2.5.5 Inventory Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32

2.5.6 Drive Info Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-37

3. Maintaining the SPARCstorage Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

3.1 Cleaning the Front Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

3.2 Cleaning Tape Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

3.3 Caring for Tape Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

A. Error Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

A.1 Hardware Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

A.2 SCSI Sense Key Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6

A.2.1 Not Ready—Sense Key 2h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7

A.2.2 Hardware Error—Sense Key 4h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8

A.2.3 Illegal Request—Sense Key 5h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-10

A.2.4 Unit Attention—Sense Key 6h. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-12

A.2.5 Aborted Command—Sense Key Bh . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-13

B. General 8mm Tape Drive Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

Tape Formats and Capacities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

Data Format Compatibility with Older Drives: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2

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Choosing a Data Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2

Choosing a cleaning cartridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2

Data Capacity with Data Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3

Hardware Data Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3

Software Data Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3

Choosing a Blocking Factor or a Block Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-4

Tape Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-4

mt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-4

tar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-5

ufsdump. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-6

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Index-1

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Figures

Figure 1-1 Operator Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Figure 2-1 Primary Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Figure 2-2 Default Element Addresses for the SPARCstorage Library . . 2-27

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Tables

Table P-1 Related Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Table P-2 Typographic Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Table P-3 Shell Prompts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Table 1-1 Tape Drive LED Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9

Table 2-1 Element Indexes for the Tape Library Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

Table 2-2 Digital System Sensor Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30

Table 2-3 Analog System Sensor Descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30

Table 2-4 Field Descriptions of Command History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31

Table 2-5 Label Error Field Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33

Table A-1 Hardware Errors by Error Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Table A-2 SCSI Sense Key Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6

Table A-3 Not Ready Sense Key (2h) ASC and ASCQ Values . . . . . . . . . A-7

Table A-4 Hardware Error Sense Key (4h) ASC and ASCQ Values . . . . A-8

Table A-5 Illegal Request Sense Key (5h) ASC and ASCQ Values . . . . . A-10

Table A-6 Unit Attention Sense Key (6h) ASC and ASCQ Values. . . . . . A-12

Table A-7 Aborted Command Sense Key (Bh) ASC and ASCQ Values . A-13

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Table B-1 Tape Capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

Table B-2 Tape Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2

Table B-3 mt Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-5

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