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Introduction, The purpose of this manual, Ultrium drives in a library – HP Ultrium Tape Drive User Manual

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The Purpose of this Manual

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1 Introduction

The Purpose of this Manual

This manual provides basic information on configuring the drives with various operating

systems.

Please see the top-level release notes that accompany the drive for expected functionality and

features.

Ultrium drives are supported on the following platforms:

HP UNIX systems (HP-UX) (

Chapter 2

)

HP Alpha UNIX (

Chapter 3

)

IBM (AIX) (

Chapter 4

)

Linux (

Chapter 5

)

Sun Systems, Solaris 8, 9, 10 (

Chapter 6

)

For platforms not mentioned here, please contact HP because there may be new connectivity

details available that arrived after the release notes were published.

See

Chapter 7

for details of how to verify the installation.

Ultrium Drives in a Library

Ultrium drives may also be used in a library. However, instructions about installing device

drivers for automatic robotics are not included in this manual.

Backup Applications

For optimum performance it is important to use a backup application that supports the drive’s

features within your system’s configuration. Please see the “Getting Started Guide” for more

information about usage models.

The following applications are suitable for use within an enterprise environment and have been

tested with Ultrium drives. They use the operating system’s standard, built-in device drivers, as