If the 4mm DAT tape drive is a HP SureStore then go to HP:s support for
information on how to set a couple of small switchen on the underside of the
tapedevice (you might have to take the cover of the device to reach the
switches).

HTH

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Håkan Ekdahl
Pulsen Systems AB

"rowan<cut-the-crap> @rownetco.com>" <"rowan<cut-the-crap> wrote in message
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> A potential client is running Profit21 on AIX. I resurrected my RS6000
PowerServer 520H (hadn't been powered
> up in about a year) and connected an external 4mm tape drive to the SCSI
chain. The machine already has an
> 8mm internal tape but the client only has 4mm. I dumped a test file from
his system to a 4mm cartridge and
> tried reading it when the 4mm was attached to a Linux machine here, did't
work. I thought perhaps it was a
> compatability issue with tar so I connected the drive to the RS6000. I
tried using SMIT to define another
> tape drive (I guess it would be RMT1 or RMT0.1?). With Linux you can go
to the /proc/scsi directory and see
> what devices were recognized by the system (example below). Since all
attempts with SMIT failed is there an
> easy way to find out what address the 4mm has with AIX or is there a
similar directory where AIX catalogs
> device information?
>
>
> [root@softtail root]# cd /proc/scsi
> [root@softtail scsi]# ls
> aic7xxx scsi sym53c8xx
> [root@softtail scsi]# cat scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
> Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2680
> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
> [root@softtail scsi]#
>
>