Hewlett-Packard Disk and Tape Technical Information

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Disk and Tape Drive Products from Hewlett-Packard

Drive Parameter Information

A table of raw drive geometries and suggested modified values for use on operating systems that can't autosize a disk (such as SUNOS and HP/UX).

HPUX Patches (PHSS_5466, PHSS_5467 ).

Two patches for HPUX 9.03/9.05 which you will need install in order to use disks larger than 2GB. Currently these patches will allow you to use drives up to 4GB in size.

HPUX Seagate Disktab Entries from some 9.X( disktab ).

Sample disktab entries for various Seagate disks.

HP DAT Drive Configuration

Information from the HP Webserver on switch settings and configuration for various machines and operating systems.

HP DAT Drive Configuration (October 1994) ( PostScript )

This document from HP describes C1553, C1533, 35480 and 35470 switch settings and configuration for various machines.

HP DAT Drive Configuration (April 1993) ( PostScript )

This document from HP describes 35470 and 35480 switch settings and configuration for various machines.

HP DAT Drive Configuration on Silicon Graphics ( Text, RTF, Postscript )

This document describes the procedure for modifying the scsi file and configuring the the SGI kernel to fully use the HP DAT drive.

A good "scsi" file (/var/sysgen/master.d/scsi) for IRIX 6.2 (Text)

This is the standard file from IRIX 6.2 with entries added for the 35470A, 35480A, C1533A, C1534A, C1535A and C1553A as well as Seagate DAT drives.

A good "scsi" file (/var/sysgen/master.d/scsi) for IRIX 5.2 and 5.3 (Text)

This is the standard file from IRIX 5.2 or 5.3 with entries added for the 35470A, 35480A, C1533A, C1553A.

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