HP Ultrium Tape Drive - Manual (Page 31)

Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX)
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7 Verifying the Installation
Verifying the Installation of the Drive (UNIX)
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.
2. Write test data to a tape.
3. Read the test data from the tape.
4. Compare the data read from the tape with the original data on disk.
To verify the installation:
1. Test the SCSI connection to the tape drive by doing a rewind operation:
a. If there is a tape cartridge already in the drive, remove it.
b. Insert a tape cartridge.
c. Rewind the tape using the command line:
% mt -f 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.
2. Write a sample file to tape, using ‘
tar
’:
% cd /
% tar cvf
The options to
tar
have the following meanings:
c
Create a new archive (backup file) on the device.
v
Operate in verbose mode.