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3.5 Checking Peripherals

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Proceed to the subsection for your device:

  • CD-ROM Disk Drive

  • SCSI Tape Devices

Then review the following subsections:

  • LDEV1 Disk Minimum Capacity

  • LDEV1 Disk Maximum Capacity

CD-ROM Disk Drive

To update or add-on to your system software using a CD-ROM, you must have a CD-ROM drive installed and configured. Refer to Appendix E "CD-ROM Resources" Verify that the CD-ROM drive you are using is one of the following:

  • HP Series 6100 Model 700/S SCSI (A1999A)

  • Toshiba XM-3401TA

  • Toshiba XM-4101TA

An Upgrade Kit (C2293U) for the Series 6000 peripheral package allows you to use internal SCSI drives on some HP 3000 computer systems.

If you do not have one of these compatible drives, contact your HP representative to order one.

If you have a compatible CD-ROM disk drive, proceed to the subsection, "LDEV 1 Disk Minimum Capacity."

SCSI Tape Devices

If you are already on version 5.5 of the system software, skip this section and proceed to "LDEV 1 Disk Minimum Capacity."

If your system software version is earlier than 5.0, and you have a SCSI-DDS tape device, do the following as part of the update to 5.5 before this update to 6.5:

  • Verify that your SCSI-DDS devices are using a compatible version of firmware.

  • Check the SCSI-DDS devices on each remote system in addition to the local system. If you are modifying a Remote system, check the SCSI-DDS devices on each remote system in addition to the local system.

  • See further instructions in the 5.5 System Software Installation Manual for Release 5.5.

If you run AUTOINST from one of the listed devices with an incompatible firmware revision, AUTOINST will fail. The spoolfile output from the restore will include this message: 

  Unexpected end of file marker found (S/R 9060)

LDEV 1 Disk Minimum Capacity

LDEV 1 requires a minimum capacity of 500 MBytes. As of Release 5.0, you cannot use the older HP7933 or HP7935 disk drives as LDEV 1 (the system disk).

When you update to MPE/iX Release 6.5, you will be unable to use CIO or fiberlink drives anywhere on the system. It is recommended that you disconnect all unsupported devices before updating.

To identify your LDEV 1 device, use the DSTAT ALL command to determine the logical device numbers of configured devices.

  1. From either the terminal or console for each system: 

    
  :DSTAT ALL

  2. If you are on an operating system older than 5.0, and if the device configured as your LDEV 1 is an unsupported device (such as HP7933 or HP7935), you must replace your LDEV 1 device with a supported device. Contact your HP representative to schedule installation of the replacement disk drive. See further instructions in the 5.5 System Software Installation Manual for Release 5.5.

  3. If the device configured as your LDEV 1 is supported, proceed with "LDEV 1 Disk Maximum Usage."

LDEV 1 Disk Maximum Usage

If you are using a disk drive with over 4 GBytes capacity as LDEV 1, any disk space over the 4 GBytes is not available for use. It cannot and will not be used for system or user files.

The 9 GB disk drive cannot be used as LDEV 1.

The predefined variable HPCPUNAME contains the name of your computer model. 

  :SHOWVAR HPCPUNAME
This is a sample reply: 

  HPCPUNAME = Series 957
See Table 3-4 "NIO Systems" for a list of NIO systems.

Table 3-4 NIO Systems

NIO Systems
Series 9x7RX, 9x7LX, 9x7SX, 9x8LX, 9x8RX, 9x9KS, 99x

  • Checking Peripherals completed. Go to the next section on your checklist.



3.4 Checking Tape Media

3.6 Estimating Disk Space