Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product 5.4 ADIC
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Release Notes 6-00031-05 Re v A © December 2004, ADIC ® ADIC is a regis tered trad emark of Adva nced Digita l Informatio n Corporation. All other prod uct, company, o r service name s mentioned h erein are the property o f their respect ive owners .
2 © December 2004, ADIC New Features These features and enhan cements are new in this release of AMASS for UNIX: • AMASS Read Only —AMASS read only allows users to set AMASS to a read only state. You can read from AMASS, but not write or d elete.
© December 2004, ADIC 3 • 4 = Sets sc si_verbose fl ag. • 8 = Sets select_debug flag (in libsched select_drive fu nction). • 15 = ALL: 1+2+4+8 • Enhanced Ca che —There are enhance ments to the AMASS feature Enhanced Ca che Control. The core of AMASS is a cach e in which data is held prior to migrating to/from media.
4 © December 2004, ADIC • -x Turns on SCSI debugging. • -j Directs the medialist command to jukebox ID rather than the default of 1. • Network Attache d Libraries —Enhancements to the networ k attached library inter face include: • Reducing the numb er of 'query drive' co mmands thus softening the load on the XDI interface.
© December 2004, ADIC 5 • -i Change volume status to inactive. • -f Sets a tape volume to NOT FULL. Adds the value vlk_maxxfr found in amass/scripts/amassconfig2 to the volume capacity.
6 © December 2004, ADIC • 3800ux 128 slots • 7100ux 238 slots • Plasmon G-Series with UDO The Plasmon G-Series librari es were pr eviously supported with optical drives. Mixing drive types within the librar y is not currently supporte d. •G 6 4 • G104 • G164 • G238 • G438 • G638 Additional firmware support includes: • ACSLS 7.
© December 2004, ADIC 7 View Patches To view a list of the patches tha t are currently ins t alled on your machine, ente r the appropriate comman d listed in the following table. Note ADIC assumes that you have inst alled all of the patches that your vend or recommended for your kernel, operating system, ne twork, hardware, and storage devic es.
8 © December 2004, ADIC Compatibility Matrix AMASS 5.4 is comp atible with Dat aMgr 3.6.2 and later . Refer to the following table for information on firmware compatibility with AMASS for UNIX Version 5.4: Description Firmware Level Library ADIC Scalar 24 107A.
© December 2004, ADIC 9 IBM L TO-1 3643 LT O - 2 4 2 D 1 3590B1A Fibre A_4EF 3590B1A SCSI NOTE: An installed IBM 3590B1A tape drive in a S torageT ek Silo ACS 4400 is seen by the ACSLS as a 9490 Timberline.
10 © December 2004, ADIC Tape Features In this release, the following table describes the features that are available with the listed t a pe drives. Ta p e D r i v e s Configure Block Size ( volforma.
© December 2004, ADIC 11 Sony SDX-700C (AIT -3) X X X X Requires minimum FW level 0102 Sony GY -212 0 (DTF-1) X X Requires minimum FW level 1.10 X Requires minimum FW level 1.
12 © December 2004, ADIC Upgrade Guidelines When upgrading to AMASS 5.4, please make no te of the following upgrade guidelines. Upgrade Instructions 1 For pre-inst allation instructions for a specific storage device, refer to the Accessing S torage Devices book.
© December 2004, ADIC 13 SCSI-Attached Devices: Co nnect the storage devices to the SCSI bus on the server . Make sure the SCSI bus is properly terminated.
14 © December 2004, ADIC Fibre Channel Guidelines The following guidelines exist for AMASS running with fibre channel. HP-UX Fibre For AMASS users in a HP-UX fibre environment connec ted to a PathLight 5000 SNC, the environment variable: AMASS_PLSNK should be used.
© December 2004, ADIC 15 # ls -l /hw/scsi total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 0 Apr 24 12:38 1000006045170ad2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 0 Apr 24 12:38 2000000087000b63 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 0 Apr 24 12:38 2000000087002b04 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 0 Apr 24 12:38 2000000087003124 3 Look at the contents of the node directo ry for that device.
16 © December 2004, ADIC Operating Guidelines When operating AMASS 5.4, pl ease make note of the following operating guidelines. IRIX: Tape Support (TS) system The tape supp ort (TS) system consists of a tape support driver , personality daemons, and a daemon to manage the personality daem ons.
© December 2004, ADIC 17 Known Issues Known issues in this release of AM ASS for UNIX Version 5.4 are listed in the table below. In addition to the following known issues, be aware of the setup and operationa l guidelines.
18 © December 2004, ADIC All 34938 Cannot delete a f ile or the volume on which the file resides. Set the environment al variable to VOLCLEAN_O LD in the command window and re-run voldelete . 35398 READAHEAD does not function as expect ed. The nature of th is problem is to be determined.
© December 2004, ADIC 19 Resolved Issues Problems that have been resolved in this release of AMASS for UNIX are as follows: Operating System Change Request Number Description All 8688 It is not possible to reco ver from ACSLS network drop without restarting.
20 © December 2004, ADIC Documentation The following documents are curr ently available for the AMASS: All 36713 Make changes to AMASS/XDI and the ssi daemon to support timeouts. 37250 Dat a base error -6 hangs th e system. AIX 34556 AMASS prompt bus failure on AIX install.
An important point after buying a device ADIC 5.4 (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
If you have not bought ADIC 5.4 yet, this is a good time to familiarize yourself with the basic data on the product. First of all view first pages of the manual, you can find above. You should find there the most important technical data ADIC 5.4 - thus you can check whether the hardware meets your expectations. When delving into next pages of the user manual, ADIC 5.4 you will learn all the available features of the product, as well as information on its operation. The information that you get ADIC 5.4 will certainly help you make a decision on the purchase.
If you already are a holder of ADIC 5.4, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime ADIC 5.4.
However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with ADIC 5.4. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device ADIC 5.4 along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center
