ITDT Help - Using Tapeutil

The Tapeutil perspective is separated into three panels.

The Tapeutil Control Center is the panel to choose from. Either choose a changer or a tape drive, then one of the listed commands.
The Parameter(s) panel allows you to configure command related parameters.
The Results panel displays the results for each command/action.

Work Flow

In a typical work flow you expand Tape Drive Commands in the Tapeutil Control Center panel.
This action opens a list with all available command options for a tape drive.
In the next step you select the Open command to open the tape device.
In the Parameter(s) panel the Device Name has to be set (e.g. \\.\tape0 for the first tape drive on Windows using device driver).
After choosing the necessary Open Mode the Execute button has to be clicked to run the command.
This will show the result of the operation in the Result window.
If opening the device is successful, choose a command from the commands list, set the required parameters and press the Execute button and review the results in the Results panel.
The last command you have to perform is a Close command.

Device Names

This section shows examples for device names of all supported platforms.
The used abbreviations stand for:

(dd) - Using a device with the IBM device driver
(gd) - Using a device with a generic device
(H B T L) - means to call the device with the Host-ID, Bus-ID, SCSI-Target-ID, and LUN-ID separated with blanks.

The correct IDs are reported in the ITDT Control Center after scan (Generic Devices).
X, Y, and Z are placeholders for integer numbers.

IBM AIX
(dd): /dev/rmtX.Y
(gd): H B T L

Linux
(dd): /dev/IBMtapeX
(gd): H B T L

Microsoft Windows
(dd): //./tapeX
(gd): H B T L

Oracle Solaris
(dd): /dev/rmt/Xstbn
(gd): H B T L

HP HP-UX
(dd): /dev/rmt/Xmnb
(gd): H B T L

Example on Microsoft Windows:
For a device using IBM device driver the call could look like \\.\tape0
and for a generic device on windows 1 0 2 1

More Information

For a detailed description of all commands follow this documentation web link:
IBM Tape Device Drivers Installation and User's Guide