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HP Ultrium drives technical reference manual, volume 5: UNIX configuration guide 13
3. Highlight the stape or schgr driver. If the driver has not been added to the kernel, both
Current State and Pending State will read “Out”.
4. Select the following:
Actions
Add Driver to Kernel
The Pending State will now read “In”.
5. To add the new driver to the kernel, select:
Actions
Create a New Kernel
The stape or schgr driver is added to the kernel.
6. Reboot the system.
For HP-UX 11.23 (11i version 2)
1. Enter sam at the command line.
2. Select the following:
Kernel Configuration
Kernel Configuration
Modules
3. Highlight the stape or schgr driver. If the driver has not been added to the kernel, both
Current State and Planned State will read “unused”.
4. Type “m” to modify the stape driver and “s” to set it to “static”. The Planned State will now read
“static”.
5. Change schgr to “static” if you are going to attach an autoloader.
6. The stape and schgr drivers are now added to the kernel.
7. Reboot the system.
Add device files using sam
This is the recommended and simplest way to create device files. To add devices, proceed as
follows:
1. # sam
This will bring up the graphical user interface for the utility.
2. Select the following:
Peripheral Devices
Tape Drives
sam will then scan the system for any tape drives connected.
When a HP Ultrium Generation 3 drive is found, for example, it will be displayed as:
Hardware Path Driver Description
===========================================================
8/0/2/0.3.0 stape HP Ultrium 3-SCSI
3. Highlight the drive and select the following from the tool bar: