Lucent Technologies Release 3 Version 8 Verifying the Tape Drive on an Enterprise 3000 Server

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Verifying the Tape Drive on an Enterprise 3000 Server

Tape Verification Procedure

This procedure is required only for Ha systems which use an E3000 - E3500 platform combination for the primary and secondary servers.

WARNING!

After the original tape drive on an Enterprise 3000 is replaced with an Exabyte Mammoth 20-40 Gbyte 8 mm drive, the customer must discard any old tapes which were formerly used with the old drive. Reuse of old tapes on the replacement drive will result in damage to the tape device.

For HA systems in which a new Enterprise 3500 platform is installed in combination with an Enterprise 3000 that is already in service, the tape drive on the 3000 must be replaced with an Exabyte Mammoth 20-40 Gbyte 8mm drive (EXB-8900).

The tape drive replacement, which is performed by a Sun technician, must be completed before the HA upgrade process starts.

If a tape device change-out was required, perform the following steps to confirm that the old tape drive was replaced:

Insert an 8mm 170m AME tape cartridge in the tape drive on the Enterprise 3000 server and enter:

mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status

If the drive has been replaced, the system responds:

Mammoth	EXB-8900 8mm Helical Scan tape drive:
sense key(0x0)= No			Additional Sense
residual= 0		retries= 0
file	no= 0	block	no= 0