<gphaedrus@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1194492543.793302.256780@q5g2000prf.googlegro ups.com...
> I've just landed in a situation where an old IBM RS/6000 7025 F40
> running AIX 4.2.1 has had it's tape drive fail. The tape drive in
> question is an HP C1533A 4mm 4GB/8GB DAT drive. It repeatedly gets
> write failures, and my trusty techique of whacking the cleaning tape
> in hasn't worked. Unfortunately the only person that knew anything
> about the server is long gone, and as I was the first person to admit
> to having used *nix (and being the new guy) it has fallen to me to try
> and find a solution.
>
> I've sourced a Sony SDT-5010, which appears to be pretty much
> identical to the defective HP unit other than the branding (same
> flavour of SCSI interface, supports the same media etc) but I don't
> really know anything about making hardware changes under AIX. From
> what I've discovered from googling and attempting to read some manuals
> it seems that I should be able to do the following:
>
> 1. Remove the current tape drive in smit
> 2. Power down
> 3. Remove defective unit
> 4. Insert 'new' unit
> 5. Power up
> 6. Add new tape drive in smit
>
> This all seems a bit too easy to me... is there something that I am
> missing? drivers/files that need updating? Configuration that smit
> doesn't tidy up when removing, or sort out when adding?
>
> Can someone out there with some actual experience, rather than my
> 'this ought to work' approach, point out anything that I'm missing...
> I'm happy to admit being a total AIX novice - I started in this job
> last week and that was my first exposure to AIX (I'm meant to be
> Windows Server support - but foolishly admitted to having used a few
> flavours of *nix in the past) - and I would really like this change to
> be as painfree as possible
>
> Thanks
> Simon Smith
>
Simon
Here is all the info you will need
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...rs6000_f80.htm

Good Luck
Basil