Verifying drive operation – Dell PowerVault 110T LTO3 User Manual

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Installation Procedures

1.

Make sure that you are logged on to the host server or workstation with Administrator privileges.

2.

Insert the Dell Powervault 110T LTO-3 Drive Support CD into the CD-ROM drive on the host server or workstation.

3.

Right-click the My Computer icon on the Windows desktop, click Manage, and then click Device Manager.

The tape drive should be listed under the ? Other Devices item as IBM Ultrium-TD3 SCSI Sequential Device.

4.

Right-click the IBM Ultrium-TD3 SCSI Sequential Device listing, click Uninstall, and then click OK to confirm that you want to remove the device.

5.

Click Action in the upper-left corner of the Computer Management dialog box.

6.

Click Scan for Hardware Changes.

Windows 2000 scans for the Dell PowerVault 110T LTO-3 drive. The tape drive appears under ? Other Devices again.

7.

Right-click the IBM Ultrium-TD3 SCSI Sequential Device listing and click Properties.

8.

Click Reinstall Driver.

9.

When the Upgrade Device Driver Wizard appears, click Next.

10.

Click Display a list ... and then click Next.

11.

Click the Tape Drives item in the list. You may have to scroll down to see this item. Click Next.

12.

Click Have Disk, type d:\Drivers\Windows 2000, 2003 32bit x86, replacing d: with the drive letter for the CD-ROM drive into which you inserted the
support CD, and click OK.

13.

Click the IBM Ultrium LTO Generation 3 tape drive entry and click Next.

14.

Click Next to install the driver.

15.

You may get a warning that says Installing this driver is not recommended ... Click Yes anyway.

16.

Click the Finish button.

17.

Close the Device Properties dialog box.

18.

The drive now appears in Device Manager under Tape Drives and is ready to use.

Microsoft Windows 2003

This section describes how to install, remove, and disable the Microsoft Windows 2003 Device Drivers for the tape drive.

Installation Procedures

1.

Make sure that you are logged on to the host server or workstation with Administrator privileges.

2.

Insert the Dell PowerVault 110T LTO-3 Drive Support CD into the CD drive on the host server or workstation.

3.

Right-click the My Computer icon on the Windows desktop, click Manage, and then click Device Manager.

The tape drive should be listed under the ? Other Devices item as IBM Ultrium-TD3 SCSI Sequential Device.

4.

Right-click the IBM Ultrium-TD3 SCSI Sequential Device listing, click Uninstall, and then click OK to confirm that you want to remove the device.

5.

Right-click the topmost item in the menu structure in the right half of the Computer Management window.

A pop-up window displays.

6.

Click Scan for Hardware Changes.

Windows 2003 scans for the Dell PowerVault 110T LTO-3 drive. (If a wizard pops up at this point, cancel the wizard. It will be used later.) The tape drive
appears under ? Other Devices again. If the tape drive is not visible, you may have to click the plus sign ("+") in front of ? Other Devices to make it
appear.

7.

Right-click the IBM Ultrium-TD3 SCSI Sequential Device listing and click Properties.

8.

Click the Reinstall Driver button. (If the Reinstall Driver button is not visible, you may have to click the Driver tab, then Update driver.)

9.

The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard appears.

10.

Click the Install from List or Specific Location radio button.

11.

Click the Next button.

12.

Click Include this location in the search.

13.

Type the driver name in the directory field, replacing d: with the drive letter for the CD drive into which you inserted the support CD and click the Next
button. Driver names are as follows:

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Windows 2003 32 bit: d:\Drivers\Windows 2000, 2003 32bit x86\dtapeW32.inf

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Windows 2003 64 bit: d:\Drivers\Windows 2003 IA64\dtapeW64.inf

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Windows 2003 x64: d:\Drivers\Windows 2003 x64\dtapex64.inf

14.

You may have to click Continue to bypass a warning.

15.

Click Finish.

16.

Close the Device Properties dialog box.

17.

The drive now appears in Device Manager under Tape Drives and is ready to use.

Verifying Drive Operation

Once you have installed the drive hardware, you should verify that it is functioning properly before you store your valuable data. Turn on the system. For
external drives, turn on the drive before you turn on the system.

The tape drive will run its POST which checks all hardware except for the drive head. The single-character display will present a series of random characters,
then become blank (not lit). The status light will briefly become solid amber, then become solid green.

Verify that the tape drive installation was successful. Following the instructions given with your Tape Backup Software application, write test data to a tape,
read the test data from the tape and compare the data read from the tape with the original data on disk.

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