Quantum AMASS FOR UNIX User Manual

Release Notes

Product

Operating Systems

Date

AMASS® for UNIX Version 5.6

IBM® AIX 5.2 and 5.3 (32-bit and 64-bit)

HP Tru64™ UNIX 5.1A and 5.1B

HP-UX® 11.00 (32-bit and 64-bit)

HP-UX® 11i (11.11) (32-bit and 64-bit)
(PA-RISC only)

SGI IRIX® 6.5.27–6.5.30

Sun Solaris™ 8 and 9 (32-bit and 64-bit)
(SPARC™ only)

Sun Solaris™ 10 (64-bit) (SPARC™ only)

March 2008

Contents 0

Purpose of This Release ................................................................................................ 2

Changes to Supported Software and Hardware....................................................... 2

Software Installation...................................................................................................... 3

Resolved Issues ............................................................................................................ 19

Known Issues ............................................................................................................... 19

Documentation............................................................................................................. 21

Contacting Quantum................................................................................................... 22

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AMASS for UNIX 5.6 Release Notes

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Purpose of This Release 0

AMASS for UNIX Version 5.6 includes several new features and enhancements
that extend its capabilities. These release notes describe changes to supported
software and hardware, and information about upgrading. These release notes
also describe currently known issues as well as issues that were resolved for this
release. Visit
UNIX Version 5.6 (or previous releases).

For more information about new features and enhancements, as well as for
information about changes to previously documented features, see the AMASS for
UNIX 5.6 Addendum. An electronic version of the addendum is located on the
AMASS 5.6 product CD, or visit

www.quantum.com for additional information about AMASS for

www.quantum.com to download a copy.

Changes to Supported Software and Hardware 0

These corrections update information from previous versions of AMASS for
UNIX.

Additional Support 0 Additional operating system support includes:

• SGI IRIX 6.5.27

• SGI IRIX 6.5.28

• SGI IRIX 6.5.29

• SGI IRIX 6.5.30

• Sun Solaris™ 10 (64-bit) (SPARC™ only)

Additional drive support includes:

• HP LTO-3 Gen

Additional library support includes:

• Quantum Scalar i500

• STK SL8500

• Plasmon GX Series: Gx24, Gx32, Gx72, Gx80, Gx134, Gx166, and Gx174

• HP AA968A: Certified for use with mixed optical media (MO and UDO)

Additional firmware support includes:

• Scalar i2000 library i3 firmware

• Scalar DLC 2.5 Service Pack 2

Purpose of This Release 2

AMASS for UNIX 5.6 Release Notes

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Discontinued Support 0 Support for the following operating system has been discontinued with AMASS

release 5.6:

• SGI IRIX 6.5.16 – 6.5.26

Support for the following operating system was discontinued with AMASS
release 5.5:

•AIX 5.1

Support for the following operating systems was discontinued with AMASS
release 5.4:

•AIX 4.3

• SGI IRIX 6.2

Support for the following library was discontinued with AMASS release 5.6:

• IBM 3494

Software Installation 0

Use the information provided in this section to upgrade AMASS for UNIX to
Version 5.6.

System Requirements 0 The requirements identified in Table 1 are necessary to support the installation of

AMASS for UNIX Version 5.6.

Table 1 AMASS for UNIX 5.6
System Requirements

System/Component Requirement

Operating System • The operating system must always be run in US

English.

• Your native operating system, and not AMASS,
limits the maximum size of your files.

• AMASS supports only the maintenance (m) and not
the feature (f) stream of IRIX 6.5.x.

• For operating systems in which both 32-bit and
64-bit versions of AMASS exist, the bit version of
the AMASS API must match the bit version of the
AMASS applications.

Server Platform To obtain details on supported application server

platforms, contact your AMASS sales representative.

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Required Operating System Patch Levels 0

Quantum requires operating system patches to successfully operate AMASS.
Obtain these patches from the appropriate vendor. To view a list of patches that
are already installed on your machine, go to View Patches.

Note: Quantum assumes that you have installed all of the patches that your

vendor recommended for your kernel, operating system, network,
hardware, and storage devices.

Patch Issues (HP-UX) 0

In HP-UX 11.11, there was a problem with certain patches installed on hardware
platforms s700 and s800. These patches contained an error that can lead to false
data being read from memory mapped files.

When the AMASS File System database check utility sysdbchk is run on a platform
which has these patches loaded, even though the AMASS database is not corrupt,
output with lines similar to below are sporadically seen (sometimes listing
thousands of files):

SHARED_NAME_RECORD: 50 - several files share the same name record
SHARED_NAME_RECORD: 58 - several files share the same name record
SHARED_NAME_RECORD: 64 - several files share the same name record

A software fix introduced in AMASS 5.5 (CR 44991) alleviated this problem. (This
software fix is also present in AMASS 5.6.)

Table 2 Commands for
Viewing Installed Patches

Patch Issues (IBM AIX) 0

In some installations of IBM AIX 5.3 ML 2, the IBM-provided /etc/protocols file is
corrupted. If this file is corrupted, AMASS cannot start. Quantum recommends
upgrading IBM AIX 5.3 to ML 3 or higher.

View Patches 0

To view a list of the patches that are currently installed on your machine, enter the
appropriate command listed in

Table 2.

Operating System Command or Path

AIX lslpp -h
HP Tru64 UNIX setld -i
HP-UX /usr/sbin/swlist -1 product PH\*
IRIX versions | grep patch
Solaris showrev -p

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Space Requireme nts 0 Table 3 shows the amount of hard disk space required by this release of AMASS.

Table 3 AMASS for UNIX 5.6
Space Requirements

Operating
System

AIX 5.2

AMASS
Program Files

130 MB / 200 MB 2 MB (minimum) 80 MB – 64 PB

(32-bit / 64-bit)

AIX 5.3

130 MB / 200 MB

(32-bit / 64-bit)

HP Tru64 UNIX

100 MB

5.1A, 5.1B

HP-UX 11.0

160 MB / 175 MB

(32-bit / 64-bit)

HP-UX 11i 11.11

175 MB / 190 MB

(32-bit / 64-bit)

IRIX 6.5.x 340 MB

Solaris 8

175 MB / 380 MB

(32-bit / 64-bit)

Solaris 9

200 MB / 400 MB

(32-bit / 64-bit)

Solaris 10

425 MB

(64-bit)

AMASS Journal

1

and Database

2

Raw Cache

3

1 The /usr/amass/logs/tac directory contains log files, so the initial size will

grow.
2 AMASS will not load unless there is a minimum of 2 MB.
3 Used exclusively by AMASS. The maximum size is dependent on sector size

and kernel architectural limits.

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Compatibility Matrix 0 For AMASS and DataMgr compatibility, refer to the DataMgr Release Notes.

Refer to Table 4 for information on firmware compatibility with AMASS for
UNIX Version 5.6.

Table 4 AMASS Library
Compatibility

Description Firmware Level

Library

Quantum Scalar 24 306A.GZ.001

Scalar 100 3.32.0002

Scalar 1000 640P.00001

Scalar i500 320G.GS00400

Scalar i2000 300A-GS02401

Scalar 10K

300A.00007

AMASS supports the Scalar 10K in a Dual
Aisle configuration as a large 10K library.
The current version of AMASS does not
support the high availability and failover
feature sets of the Scalar 10K in a Dual
Aisle configuration.

Ampex DST 812 R 003.02.p

DISC 245

3.16

525

HP Model 4/48 1.02

Model 600 FX 0.48

Phillips LMS LF-6600 C05B

Plasmon D-Series 875 3.01a

Plasmon G-Series

G02
G104 - G638
Gx-24 - Gx174

StorageTek 97xx Series 1.00.03

SL8500 1.61

L-180 Series 3.09.00

L-700 Series 3.09.00

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Library Interface

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Description Firmware Level

ACSLS for StorageTek 7.1

DAS for ADIC AML Series 3.12

Scalar DLC for ADIC Scalar

2.5 SP2
10K firmware 300 and above requires 2.5
SP2 Hotfix 38

Drive

Ampex DST 312 S 2.12bd

DST 314 1535

HP HP UDO 3.00

LTO-3 Gen 92LS

IBM LTO-1 4561

LTO-2 4AP0

LTO-3 5481

3590B1A Fibre A_4EF

3590B1A SCSI

A_558

NOTE: An installed IBM 3590B1A tape
drive in a StorageTek Silo ACS 4400 is
seen by the ACSLS as a 9490 Timberline.

3590E1A Fibre D01F_2B9

3590E1A SCSI D01F_2B9

3590H1A Fibre F26E

3592 0529

Panasonic SW-9571 Multi-Drive A111

Plasmon Plasmon UDO U03

Quantum DLT 4000 150

DLT 7000 276A

DLT 8000 0250

SDLT 220 4646

SDLT 320 4646

SDLT 600 2222

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