HP C1537A, Technical Reference Manual

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Verifying the Installation 37
Verifying 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
Write test data to a tape.
2 Read the test data from the tape.
3
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 <archive name> rewind
If you do not see the Tape light flash as the tape rewinds, the hardware
installation may be faulty. Check the troubleshooting section of the User’s
Guide for help in identifying the problem.
4 Write a sample file to tape, using ‘
tar
’:
% cd /
% tar cvf <archive name> <file>
The options to
tar
have the following meanings:
c
Create a new archive (backup file) on the device.
v
Operate in verbose mode.
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