Re: DDS3 drive in E25

From: Alan D Johnson (adjtech_at_hvc.rr.com)
Date: 07/21/05 

Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:33:47 GMT

Richard Gaudette wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have an E25 server that currently has a DDS1 drive in it that is
> acting flaky.
>
> I was wondering if anyone knew if this drive, a DDS3 for HP9000s, would
> work in the E25:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5789981078&category=39977&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1
>
>
> We're running HPUX 11.
>
> I'm hoping that I can just take the system down, replace the drive and
> nothing will have to be changed. Is this so?
>
> Any help is appreciated,
>
> Richard
Richard,
  The DDS3 drive should work ok on 11.0, just make sure that when you
put the new drive in that you remove all of the original device files
from /dev/rmt and /dev/diag/rmt and the do an ioscan/insf -e.