Verifying The Installation; To Verify The Installation - HP 157770-001 - DAT Drive 20/40 Tape Configuration Manual

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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 sending a status request:
a. Ensure a tape cartridge installed in the drive.
b. Enter the following using the command line:
% mt -f <archive name> status
For example, on Linux:
% mt -f /dev/st0 status
If the response in the command line is:
mt /dev/st0: No such file or directory
the hardware installation may be faulty. Check the troubleshooting section of the User's
Guide for help in identifying the problem.
If the response in the command line is:
mt /dev/st0: No medium found
check that a tape is loaded in the drive.
If tape drive information is returned, the tape drive has been detected correctly by the
operating system.
2. Write a sample file to tape, using '
% cd /
% tar cvf <archive name> <file>
The options to
Create a new archive (backup file) on the device.
c
Operate in verbose mode.
v
Specify the archive name explicitly.
f
The arguments follow the
<archive name>
<file>
tar
have the following meanings:
tar
options in the command line. The arguments are as follows:
cvf
The name of the archive name to be created.
Example:
/dev/st0
The name of the file to archive, prefixed with '
Example:
./boot/vmlinuz
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'.
./
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