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  • Page 1

    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 . Product: AMASS for UNIX ® Version 5.4 Operating Systems: IBM ® AIX 5.1 and 5.2 (32-bit only) HP[...]

  • Page 2

    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. To change the state to read on ly we use the amasstat command. The options are as follows: Usage: [...]

  • Page 3

    © 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. The cache is bro ke u[...]

  • Page 4

    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. A f[...]

  • Page 5

    © 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. • -F Sets a tape volume to FULL. • -s Sets volume availabl e (AVAIL) size (Mb) volstat -s <available size in Mb> <vol-num> • -u Displays this[...]

  • Page 6

    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 7.0[...]

  • Page 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. O[...]

  • Page 8

    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.GY002 Scalar 100 3.22.0003 Scalar 1000 601A.00001 2.23.0004 Scalar i2000 200A-GS01801 Sc[...]

  • Page 9

    © 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. A_558 3590E1A Fibre D01F_2B9 3590E1A SCSI D01F_2B9 3590H1A Fibre F26E 3592 04A6 Panasonic SW -9571 Multi-Dri ve A1 1 1 Plasmon Plasmon UDO A02[...]

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    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 ( volformat command) 1 Compression ( volformat command) 1 Ta p e Streaming ( config_ prod -o ) 2 Automatic Drive Cleaning 1 Optional InfiniteFi le Life 3 A m p [...]

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    © 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 1.10 Sony G4-8240 (DTF-2) XXX X - S torageT ek T imberline 9490-E X X --- S torageT ek Redwood SD-3 XXX -- S torageT ek 9840 A, B, and C XXX S e e N o t e 2 - S torageT ek 9940[...]

  • Page 12

    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. 2 Make sure the UNIX server has the required operating system patch levels. Read the h[...]

  • Page 13

    © 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. Re fer to your library ’s user manual for instructions on setting the SCSI addresses. The AMASS installation script retr ieves and displays device addresses to aid you in the AMASS configurat[...]

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    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. A known error condition exists where the fir s t SCSI test -unit-ready se nt to the[...]

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    © 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. # ls -l /hw/scsi/100[...]

  • Page 16

    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. Thie TS system is provided by SGI to manage tape devi[...]

  • Page 17

    © 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. For more information, refer to “Installation Guidelines,” “Fibre Channel Guidelines,” and “Operating Guidelin es” [...]

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    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. 36867 libio and amassmain cores. S top and restart AMASS. 37[...]

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    © 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. 8972 Enhanced Cache Management does n ot reuse cache b locks according to specification. 1[...]

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    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. 361 18 test_install failure on AIX 5.2. DEC 5909 The killdaemons -F comman[...]