Updated Summary: Listing Tape devices?

An update on the summary: There is a command which does this 
straight:

/opt/SUNWexplo/tools/bin/diskinfo.sparc |grep rmt

 -> it lists the tape device path (i.e /dev/rmt/0x and the 
vendor, product, rev, serial number.  almost similar to ioscan 
output of HP.

Thanks to Bertrand_Hutin for this tip.
 



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---- On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Sun Tyro (suntyro@ureach.com) wrote:

> Thanks for all the responders.  Too many to mention.  
> 
> The correct solution was to run the command:
>   iostat -En 
> 
> eg: iostat -En |grep -e rmt -e DLT -e STK
> rmt/0   ...
> Vendor:STK  Product:  T9840B   Revision ..
>  -> which implies there is one tape drive /dev/rmt/0ub of STK 
>     model; It's h/w path can be got by the commands mentioned 
in
>     my original post.
>     Incidentally the iostat -En is used to list errors 
occuring
>     in the i/o devices. Ironic, that this command is the 
easiest
>     way to list tape devices ;-)
> 
> Other responses included:
> 
> mt status  -> doesn't work out well, since it depends on 
tapes 
> being present in the drives; and also does not work well with 
> SAN drives.
> 
> /usr/sbin/smc  ->  gui utility which is disabled on many of 
my 
> servers. Also, not the ideal solution when a command line is 
> what i am looking for.
> 
> 
> cfgadm -alv  -> does not show any reference to rmt.
> 
> Install sysinfo from http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo/
>    ->  haven't yet tried it. Wish it was a free product.
> 
> use ssciinfo tool -> haven't tried it as yet.
> 
> thanks again!
> 
> 
> 
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> ---- On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Sun Tyro (suntyro@ureach.com) wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> >    How to find out what are the model of tape drives 
> connected 
> > to a SUN system?? is there a command(s) equivalent 
> to "ioscan -
> > nkfC tape" of hpux ?
> > 
> >  I need to configure tape drives for backup on couple of 
sun 
> > systems (e4500) and my first step is to figure out whether 
> > there are any DLT7000 tape drives connected to the system. 
> How 
> > do i do this, without physically checking the cables and 
> > tracing them?  In HP, the ioscan command lists the tape 
> > devices, their paths and the model information.
> > 
> >  I checked the following two commands  :
> >    #prtconf |grep "st," |grep -v not
> >      st, instance  #269
> >      st, instance  #268
> > 
> >     ->> does this mean that there are two tape drives 
> connected
> >         to the system? 
> > 
> >  # grep "269" /etc/path_to_inst |grep st
> >   "/sbus@7,0/fce@0,400000/st@0,1"  269 "st"
> > 
> > #ls -l /dev/rmt/*ub  |grep "fce@0,400000/st@0,1"
> >   /dev/rmt/3ub
> > 
> >   So, with the above 3 commands, i find that /dev/rmt/3ub 
is 
> a 
> > tape drive connected to the system. How do i find out what 
> type 
> > or model of drive it is?? Is it a DLT, a dat drive ?
> > 
> >  Is there any easier way to do this all in one 
> script/command? 
> > 
> >     
> > thanks for the help.
> > styro
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