Verifying The Tape Drive On An Enterprise 3000 Server; Tape Verification Procedure - Lucent Technologies CentreVu Release 3 Version 8 High Availability Connectivity, Upgrade and Administration User Manual

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Verifying the Tape Drive on an Enterprise 3000 Server

Verifying the Tape Drive on an Enterprise 3000 Server
Tape Verification
Procedure
This procedure is required only for Ha systems which use an E3000 -
E3500 platform combination for the primary and secondary servers.
WARNING!
After the original tape drive on an Enterprise 3000 is replaced with
an Exabyte Mammoth 20-40 Gbyte 8 mm drive, the customer must
discard any old tapes which were formerly used with the old drive.
Reuse of old tapes on the replacement drive will result in damage to
the tape device.
For HA systems in which a new Enterprise 3500 platform is installed in
combination with an Enterprise 3000 that is already in service, the tape
drive on the 3000 must be replaced with an Exabyte Mammoth 20-40
Gbyte 8mm drive (EXB-8900).
The tape drive replacement, which is performed by a Sun technician,
must be completed before the HA upgrade process starts.
If a tape device change-out was required, perform the following steps to
confirm that the old tape drive was replaced:
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Insert an 8mm 170m AME tape cartridge in the tape drive on the
Enterprise 3000 server and enter:
mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status
If the drive has been replaced, the system responds:
Mammoth EXB-8900 8mm Helical Scan tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense
residual= 0
file no= 0
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retries= 0
block no= 0
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