Testing Your Installation - HP 9000 Series Owner's Manual

Your system is now running the added driver for SCSI DDS tape drive. You
are ready to use the drive to load a tape into your system.

Testing Your Installation

Note that a write-protect tab on the cassette allows you to protect data from
being over-written. You will need to make sure that the tab is moved to the
\writable" position in order for it to serve as a back up medium.
A simple test to make certain that everything has been installed satisfactorily
is to load a tape in the drive, wait for the \busy" light to stop blinking, and
execute the command:
ioscan
/etc/ioscan
The LED on the drive should icker brie y. If the command completes
successfully, a listing of your devices, including the tape hardware address,
name and status will be displayed, indicating that it is installed correctly. Note
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that the command may fail with a busy error if the command is executed
before the tape has completed loading.
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