From: Sun Tyro (suntyro@ureach.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 15:08:05 EST
Thanks for all the responders. Too many to mention.
The correct solution was to run the command:
iostat -En
eg: iostat -En |grep -e rmt -e DLT -e STK
rmt/0 ...
Vendor:STK Product: T9840B Revision ..
-> which implies there is one tape drive /dev/rmt/0ub of STK
model; It's h/w path can be got by the commands mentioned in
my original post.
Incidentally the iostat -En is used to list errors occuring
in the i/o devices. Ironic, that this command is the easiest
way to list tape devices ;-)
Other responses included:
mt status -> doesn't work out well, since it depends on tapes
being present in the drives; and also does not work well with
SAN drives.
/usr/sbin/smc -> gui utility which is disabled on many of my
servers. Also, not the ideal solution when a command line is
what i am looking for.
cfgadm -alv -> does not show any reference to rmt.
Install sysinfo from http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo/
-> haven't yet tried it. Wish it was a free product.
use ssciinfo tool -> haven't tried it as yet.
thanks again!
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---- On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Sun Tyro (suntyro@ureach.com) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> How to find out what are the model of tape drives
connected
> to a SUN system?? is there a command(s) equivalent
to "ioscan -
> nkfC tape" of hpux ?
>
> I need to configure tape drives for backup on couple of sun
> systems (e4500) and my first step is to figure out whether
> there are any DLT7000 tape drives connected to the system.
How
> do i do this, without physically checking the cables and
> tracing them? In HP, the ioscan command lists the tape
> devices, their paths and the model information.
>
> I checked the following two commands :
> #prtconf |grep "st," |grep -v not
> st, instance #269
> st, instance #268
>
> ->> does this mean that there are two tape drives
connected
> to the system?
>
> # grep "269" /etc/path_to_inst |grep st
> "/sbus@7,0/fce@0,400000/st@0,1" 269 "st"
>
> #ls -l /dev/rmt/*ub |grep "fce@0,400000/st@0,1"
> /dev/rmt/3ub
>
> So, with the above 3 commands, i find that /dev/rmt/3ub is
a
> tape drive connected to the system. How do i find out what
type
> or model of drive it is?? Is it a DLT, a dat drive ?
>
> Is there any easier way to do this all in one
script/command?
>
>
> thanks for the help.
> styro
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