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Administrator's Guide
- Install the SCSI adapter card in your system, if not already
installed.
- Determine the SCSI IDs available on the SCSI adapter card to which you are
attaching the device. Find one unused SCSI ID for each drive, and one
unused SCSI ID for the library or autochanger controller.
- Note:
- In some automated libraries, the drives and the autochanger share a single
SCSI ID, but have different LUNs. For these libraries, only a single
SCSI ID is required. Check the documentation for your device.
- Follow the manufacturer's instructions to set the SCSI ID for the
drives and library controller to the unused SCSI IDs that you found.
Usually this means setting switches on the back of the device.
- Note:
- Each device that is connected in a chain to a single SCSI bus must be set to
a unique SCSI ID. If each device does not have a unique SCSI ID, you
may have serious system problems.
- Follow the manufacturer's instructions to attach the device to your
server system hardware.
Attention:
- Power off your system before attaching a device to prevent damage to the
hardware.
- Attach a terminator to the last device in the chain of devices connected
on one SCSI adapter card. Detailed instructions should be in the
documentation that came with your hardware.
- Install the appropriate device drivers.
See Selecting a Device Driver.
- Find the device worksheet that applies to your device. See http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/tivolimain.html.
- Determine the name for each drive and for the library, and
record the names on the device worksheet.
Keep the Worksheets: The information you record on the
worksheets can help you when you need to perform operations such as adding
volumes to an autochanger. Keep the work sheets for future
reference.
For the Tivoli Storage Manager server to access a SCSI library, set the
device for the appropriate mode. This is usually called
random mode; however, terminology may vary from one device to
another. Refer to the documentation for your device to determine how to
set it to the appropriate mode.
Notes:
- Some libraries have front panel menus and displays that can be used for
explicit operator requests. However, if you set the device to respond
to such requests, it typically will not respond to Tivoli Storage Manager
requests.
- Some libraries can be placed in sequential mode, in which
volumes are automatically mounted in drives by using a sequential
approach. This mode conflicts with how Tivoli Storage Manager accesses
the device.
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