Problems with Your Tape Drive
When does the problem occur?
Installing The Tape Drive
Backing Up The Appliance
Restoring The Appliance
General Issues & Diagnosis (DDS)
Installing the Tape Drive
Setting up the drive so that it is ready to work with the appliance.
Refer to the installation poster and the online
Tape Drive Guide
.
If there is a problem, what are the symptoms?
DDS : At power on, both lights flash, and then the orange light stays on.
DLT : At power on, all the left/right side lights continually flash
At power on, none of the lights come on.
DLT : The system fails to recognize the drive.
DLT : The drive will not accept a tape cartridge.
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Backing Up the Appliance
The appliance automatically gets backed up on tape, if it has detected a drive present
with a tape loaded.
If there is a problem, what are the symptoms?
Tape Full message in administrators console.
DDS : Tape being ejected immediately upon load.
DDS : Tape write protected message in administrators console.
Troubleshooting, Tape Drive
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