Verifying drive operation – Dell PowerVault LTO4-120HH User Manual

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7. Right-click the IBM Ultrium-HH4 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 Next.
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 2003 32bit x86\dtapeW32.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

After you install the drive hardware, 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, and then
become blank (not lit). The fault LED will flash once, then the Ready/Activity LED will turn on sold.

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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