HP C5726A, SureStore DLT 80m User Manual

HP SureStore DLT Removable Tape Drive

DLT 80m

User’s Guide

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Installation Overview

HP SureStore DLT

Installation Guide

For further

details, see:

Before you start:

❑ Check the packing list inside this guide. ❑ Check system prerequisites.

Step 1: Attach loca l language labels, if necessary Step 2: Install the tape drive

1 Ensure the drive extractor lever is in the out position. 2 Slide the tape drive, locking lever at the bottom, into an empty bay of

an HP SureStore H/A Tape Array 5500. It needs to mate with the connectors at the back of the bay.

3 Push the extractor lever in until it locks the drive in position.

On Completion

Power on the system and check that the tape drive is operational. Insert the HP SureStore Tape CD-ROM. It contains drivers, backup software and various utilities.

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Overview

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subject to change without notice. This document contains proprietary information

which is protected by copyright. All rights are reserved. No part of this docum en t may be photocopied, reproduced or translated to anothe r language without the prior written consent of Hewlett-Packard Limited.

Hewlett-Packard shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for in cidental or consequential damages (including lost profits) in connection with the furnishin g, performance, o r use of this mate rial whether based on warranty, contract, or other legal theory.

March 2000 Part Number: C7456-90902 Printed in the UK

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Product Details

Write your tape drive details here so you can find them easily if you need them.

Model name:

Model number:

Serial number:

Date purchased/installed:

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Contents

Installation Overview inside front cover

1 Installing Your Removable Drive in an HP SureStore H/

A Tape Array 5500

Before You Start 1-2

Step 1: Attach Local Language Labels if Necessary 1-3 Step 2: Install the Tape Drive 1-3 On Completion: 1-4

Registering Your Tape Drive 1-5 Replacing the Drive 1-6

Check the Contents of the Box 1-2

Verify the Installation 1-4 Install Backup Software and Driver 1-4

2 Operating the Drive

Front Panel 2-2 Operating the Drive 2-4 Using the Cartridge Locking Handle 2-4 The Power-On Self-Test 2-7

3 Care of the Drive and Tape Cartridges

Cleaning the Tape Heads 3-2 Types of Tape Cartridges 3-3 Write-Protecting a Cartrid ge 3-4 Taking Care of Data Cartridges 3-5

Inspecting Cartridges Before Loading and After Unloading 3-5

How to detect a lost leader in a tape drive: 3-6 Handling Tape Cartridges 3-7 Labeling Cartridges 3-7 Operating Conditions 3-8 Conditioning Cartridges 3-8 Storing Cartridges 3-8 Transporting Cartridges 3-8

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Contents

4 Tape Cartridge Densities and Compression

Density 4-2 Changing the Density and Compression for Writing 4-2

5 Troubleshooting

HP TapeAssure 5-2 If the Self-Test Fails 5-2 Other Problems 5-3

6 Product Specifications and Ordering Information

Product Specification A-2

Physica l Specification A-2 Performance Specification A-2 Power Requirements A-2 Interface Specification A-2 Environmental Specification A-3 Vibration and Shock Tolerance A-3 Reliability Specification A-4 Safety and Electromagnetic Emissions Specification A-4

Ordering Information A-4

7 Customer Support

Warranty B-2 Hewlett-Packard Year 2000 Warranty B-4 Service and Support B-4 Contacting Customer Support B-6

Index

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Installing Your Removable Drive in an HP SureStore H/A Tape Array 5500

This chapter describes how to install a removable HP SureStore DLT 80m drive in an HP SureStore H/A Tape Array 5500.

Note For an overview of the in stallation process, see inside the front cover.

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Installing Your Removable Drive in an HP SureStore H/A Tape Array 5500

Before You Start

Check the Contents of the Box

Unpack the box containing the drive and identify the following items:

❑ HP SureStore DLT™ drive

❑ User’s Guide

(Please discard unused languages in recycling bin)

❑ Front panel labels

in different languages

❑ DLTtapeIV™

cartridge

❑ Cleaning

cartridge

❑ Warranty Registration

card and labels

❑ HP SureStore Tape

CD-ROM containing:

• HP TapeAssure

• TapeAlert utilities

If any items appear to be mis sing or damaged, conta ct your supplier o r the delivery company.

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extractor lever

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Installing Your Removable Drive in an HP SureStore H/A Tape Array 5500

Step 1: Attach Local Language Labels if Necessary

A set of labels for the front panel in several different languages is provided with the drive. Identify those with your local language, peel them from the backing paper and s tick them firmly t o the front p anel of the dri ve over the English-language labels.

Step 2: Install the Tape Drive

1 Ensure that the extractor lever on the drive is in the out position, a s shown

in the picture.

Step 1: Attach Local Language Labels if Necessary

2 Lift the drive carefully and turn it so that it is on its side with the extractor

lever at the bottom.

3 Align the rear of the drive with the guides on the bottom of the

HP SureStore H/A Tape Array 5500.

4 Slide the drive along the guides until the connectors on the back mate with

the connectors at the back of the enclosure.

Push the extractor lever in until it locks the drive in position.

Figure 1.1 HP SureStore H/A Tape Array 5500 showing five drives installed.

NOTE

• SCSI IDs for drives in the tape array are set on the back panel of the array.

• If you are installing fewer than five dri ves in t he tape array, you need to use a blanking plate.

See the documentation with the tape array for details.

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On Completion:

Verify the Installation

Once you have installed the tape drive, you should verify that it is functioning properly before you store your valuable data. If you have a Windows 95/98, Windows NT or NetWare system, the HP TapeAssure software provided on t he HP SureStore T ape CD-ROM will perform a series of tests to verify that the drive has been properly installed and provide guidance on what to do if there is a problem.

1 When it is powered up, the drive runs its self-test, which takes about 13

seconds if no cartridge is loaded. At the end of the self-test , only the gre en “Operate Handle” light should be lit (assuming there is no cartridge in the drive). Read more about the front panel lights in Chapter 2.

Note These instructions assume that the HP SureStore H/A Tape Array 5500 is

powered on when you install the drive. If it is powered off, you will need to switch it on again and the drives will power up in sequence.

2 Verify that the tape drive installation was successful.

If you are installing on a Windows 95/98, Windows NT , or NetW are system, use HP TapeAssure to verify that the tape drive is operational.

Select HP TapeAssure from the Windows Start menu. (If you did not install TapeAssure in Step 1, install it now from the Welcome page on the HP SureStore Tape CD-ROM.) No other backup software should be running at the same time.

• Have a blank cartridge ready for the backup and restore test, which you should perform to check that the drive can write data to tape. (For tape loading instructions, see page 2-5.)

Install Backup Software and Driver

Before you can use the tape drive, yo u will need a backup applica tion with driver software that supports your tape drive model.

Depending on which backup software you use, the driver may be supplied on the HP SureStore Tape CD-ROM, your backup software disks, or your operating syst em disks. See the README fi le on t he HP SureStore Tape CD-ROM for which drivers are available for your specific model.

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Registering Your Tape Drive

You must register with HP to ensure that you benefit from the full 3-year warranty period. The second and third years of warranty are subject to registration within 30 days.

You can register elect ronically on the internet or yo u can use the W arranty Registration card that is provided with your drive.

In order to ensure your registration is complete, there are a number of questions on the registration card and electronic form that are mandatory. Other questions are opt ional. Howe ver, the more you fee l able to complete , the better HP can meet your needs. (If you wish, you may register your drive and choose not to receive any further information from HP.)

If you have internet access, register electronically as described below.

Registering Your Tape Drive

What Next?

1 Select the “Warranty Registration” topic on the HP SureStore Tape

CD-ROM.

2 Select the “Register on the Web” link. This links you to HP’s Warranty

Registration web site.

3 Comp lete the regis tratio n form. Op tional q uestions are mark ed with a n

“*” and the text is in red.

4 Click the Submit button to forward your registration immediately to HP.

If you do not have internet access:

1 Complete the Warranty Registration card supplied with the drive.

Mandatory questions are in black, bold text.

2 Post or fa x the completed form to HP.

If the tape drive has passed the tests run by HP TapeAssure, you ca n be confident that you have installed it correctly. You are now ready to put it to regular use backing up your system. See your backup application’s documentation for instructions on how to back up and restore data.

Chapter 2 provides details of how to operate your drive. Make sure you read Chapter 3 regarding the care of the drive and cartridges.

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Replacing the Drive

HP SureStore DLT 80m drives can be hot-swapped, that is they can be removed and replaced without pow ering down the HP SureStore H/A T ape Array 5500 and without interrupting operations to the other drives in the array. However you should be aware of the following:

• If all drives in the tape array are powered up when the system is turned on, the host will be aware of those drives. You can remove any of those drives and replace it with another drive without disrupting the system.

• If a drive is not powered up or you place a drive in an empty slot after the system has been powered up, the system will have to be reset before the host will recognize the drive.

• Hot swap a llows f or mo dules to be replace d whi le po wered up as lo ng as no data is being transmitted from the system to the module or vice versa.

• The SCSI IDs are controlled by the tape array, not by the drives themselves, so if you remove a drive and replace it with another the ID will not change.

1 Pull the extraction lever of the drive that you want to replace so that it is

in the out position.

Figure 1.2 Replacing a drive

Pull here on the extraction lever to release the left-most drive

2 Using the extraction lever, pull the drive gently and firmly out of the tape

array.

3 To insert another drive, follow the instructions in Step 2 on page 1-3.

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Operating the Drive

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Operating the Drive

Front Pa nel

Front Panel

Density and Compression Lights (yellow)

• When a tape is loaded, these lights indicate the density at which the tape is written and whether compression is used. They indicate native (uncompressed) capacities of 10.0/15.0, 20.0, 35.0 and 40.0 GB.

• They are also used if you need to write a tape at a density lower than its defau lt density. See Chapter 4.

“Density Override” Light (yellow)

• Flashing: Means the flashi ng density lights ind icate the new density y ou have selected through the Density S elect button. Th e new density will not take effec t until the host instructs the drive to start writing at BOT (Beginning of Tape). See Chapter 4.

• Steady: The tape is being written at a density other than its default density.

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Select Button

Repeatedly press this button to select a new density at which to write the tape.

Slot for Inserting Cartridge

Cartridge Locking Handle

Secures the tape cartridge inside the drive. Only operate the handle when the green “Operate Handle” light is lit.

“Write-Protected” Light (orange)

Steady: The tape cartridge currently loaded in the drive is write-protected.

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“Tape in Use” Light (yellow)

• Steady: The tape is loaded and ready for use.

• Flashing regularly: The cartridge is being loaded, unloaded or rewound.

• Flashing irregularly: A calibration read or write is in progress.

“Use Cleaning Tape” Light (yellow)

• Steady: The tape heads need cleaning.

• Flashing: The tape may be damaged.

“Operate Handle” Light (green)

• Steady: You can operate the Cartridge Locking Handle to insert or remove a

• Off: Do not operate the handle.

Unload Button

• Press this but ton to unload a tape car tridge. If the drive is busy , it will fin ish its

• Only operate the Car tridge L ocking Handle to release the tape cartridge when

Operating the Drive

Front Panel

cartridge.

current task before unloading the cartridge. the “Operate Handle” light is lit.

Density and Compression Lights—Normal Usage

In normal usage, the density lights simply indicate the native (uncompressed) capacity of the tape cartridge loaded in the drive and whether the data is compressed.

A new DLT tape IV will cause both the “40.0” light and the “Compress” light to be lit. The tape’s default capacity of 40 GB can sto re 80 GB of data using the drive’s hardware data compression facility with a compression ratio of 2:1. (The actual compression ratio depends on the type of dat a being stored.)

Note 10.0 GB type III tape cartridges and 15.0 GB DLTt ape IIIxt cartridges are

both indicated by the 10.0/15.0 GB light being lit. It is possible to write a tape cartridge at a lower density for interchange

with a lower capacity DLT drive. See page 4-2 for details of how to do this and how to switch hardware data compression on and off.

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Operating the Drive

To switch on a drive:

1 Switch the drive on using the power button on the front panel of the rack.

• The drive performs its self-test, which takes about 13 seconds.

• At the end, assuming no tape cartridge is in the drive, only the green “Operate Handle” light will be lit.

2 You are now ready to load a tape cartridge.

To switch off a drive:

Caution Only switch off the drive when the Cartridge Locking Handle is down.

Switching off with the handle up can cause problems loading a tape cartridge when you switch on again.

1 Ensure the green “Operate Handle” light is lit.

If there is a cartridge in the drive, unload it by pressing the Unload button. Then wait until the “Operate Handle” light is lit.

2 Switch the drive off using the power button on the front panel of the rack.

Using the Cartridge Locking Handle

Only operate t he Cartridge Locki ng handle on the front of DL T drives whe n all the following have occurred:

• The green Operate Handle light is lit steadily.

• A further 5 seconds have elapsed.

If you try to lift the handle before the drive is ready to release the cartridge, you will probably cause the tape leader to become dislodged.

Note that the handle must be fully in the down position for the power-on self-test to complete satisfactorily . If the handle is not fully down during the self-test, the “Operate Handle” light will flash.

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Operating the Drive

Using the Cartridge Locking Handle

To load a tape cartridg e:

1 Wait until the green “Operate Handle” light is lit.

2 Pull the Cartridge Locking Handle so that it swings up.

Caution Before you load a new tape cartridge into the drive, check

that no blank labels or bits of plastic wrapper are stuck to the bottom of the cartridge. These could cause the cartridge to jam in the drive or damage the drive mechanism.

3 Slide the cartridge over the top of the handle.

The cartridge will only go into the drive in the correct orientation—see the diagram.

4 Push the cartridge in firmly until it reaches a stop.

The cartridge will be flush with the front of the drive. From this point, the cartridge can only be removed by going through the unload steps on the next page.

5 Push the Cartridge Locking Handle so that it swings down.

• The “Operate Handle” light goes off.

• The yellow “Tape in Use” light flashes while the tape is

loaded. This takes about 50 seconds.

6 When the yellow “Tape in Use” light is lit, the tape is ready

for use.

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Operating the Drive

Using the Cartridge Locking Handle

To unload a tape cartridge:

1 Press the Unload button.

2 The yellow “Tape in Use” light flashes while the tape

is rewound. This could take up to 2 minutes, depending where on

the tape the drive was last reading or writing.

3 Wait for the green “Operate Handle” light to be lit.

4 Pull the Cartridge Locking Handle so that it swings

up.

5 Remove the cartridge and replace it in its plastic case.

Replace the cartridge in its case immediately to protect it from dust.

6 Push the Cartridge Locking Handle so that it swings

down.

Caution Make a habit of pushing the handle down after you

remove a cartridge. If the tape drive is powered down with the handle up, the drive will not accept a cartridge until you have pushed the handle down and up twice.

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The Power-On Self-Test

When you power on the HP SureStore DLT drive, it performs a sel f-test to check that it is functioning correctly. The test takes about 13 seconds if no tape cartridge is loaded, and the pattern of front panel lights at the end tells you the results of the test.

During the test the following occurs:

1 All the lights on the left side of the front panel are lit simultaneously

2 The lights go off, leaving the “Tape in Use” light flashing. 3 The se lf-test finishes. If the t est is successful and no cartr idge is in the

Operating the Drive

The Power-On Self-Test

while the lights on the right side are lit in sequence.

drive, the only light showing will be the green “Operate Handle” light, lit steadily.

After a Successf ul Sel f -Test

No cartridge in the drive:

• Only the green “Operate Handle” light is lit.

Cartridge in the drive—Cartridge Locking Handle down:

1 The “Tape in Use” light flashes while the drive loads the cartridge. 2 The “Tape in Use” light stops flashing and stays lit; the density and

“Compress” lights show the tape cartridge’s density. When the “Density Override” ligh t flashes, you can se lect a new density

if you need to. See page 4-3.

Cartridge in the drive—Cartridge Locking Handle Up:

Caution It is inadvisable to leave a drive in this state.

• The “Operate Handle” light flashes. All other lights are off. Lower the Cartridge Locking Handle to load the cartridge.

After an Unsuccessful Self-Test

All left side or right side lights flash:

The test has fai led. See Chapter 5, “Troubleshooting,” for what to do.

No lights are lit:

The drive is probably not receiving power. Check the power supply. See Chapter 5 for more details.

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