Verifying The Installation; Verifying The Installation Of The Drive (Unix); To Verify The Installation - HP C7401A - SureStore Ultrium 230 Tape Drive Technical Reference Manual

Verifying the Installation

Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX)

To verify the installation:

As part of the installation process, you will have installed the appropriate
device driver for your UNIX system, and created device files to communicate
with the tape drive.
This section describes how you can verify that the installation has been
performed correctly.
In outline, the procedure is as follows:
1 Check the tape drive responds to a rewind command.
Write test data to a tape.
2
Read the test data from the tape.
3
4 Compare the data read from the tape with the original data on disk.
Test the SCSI connection to the tape drive by doing a rewind operation:
1
If there is a tape cartridge already in the drive, remove it.
a
b Insert a tape cartridge.
c Rewind the tape using the command line:
% mt -f <device file> rewind
For example, on HP-UX:
% mt -f /dev/rmt/0mnb rewind
If the command completes successfully, there will be no feedback. If it
fails, you will see an error message on the console. The hardware
installation may be faulty. Check the troubleshooting section of the User's
Guide for help in identifying the problem.
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