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HP C240 User Manual

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Using Your Digital Data Storage (DDS) Tape Drive

Operating the DDS Tape Drive

Verifying the DDS Tape Drive Operation

To verify that your workstation can communicate with the DDS-format tape
drive, enter the following:

/usr/sbin/ioscan -d stape

After a few moments the ioscan utility returns a message similar to the fol-
lowing:

H/W Path Class Description

============================================

bc

8 bc I/O Adapter

8/16 ba Core I/O Adapter

8/16/5 ext_bus Built-in SCSI

8/16/5.3 target

8/16/5.3.0 tape HP HP35480A

If ioscan does not see your tape drive, it will return the following message:

ioscan: No hardware found

If you receive this message, go to Chapter 5, “Solving Problems.”

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