Fujitsu LTO-5 Manual de usuario

User Guide

LTO-5Half-Height

SAS Tape Drive

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Contents

Intended audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Document conventions and symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

1.1 Your LTO-5 tape drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

1.2 How do I connect the drive to my server? . . . . . . . . . . . 8

1.3 Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.3.1 Installing on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

1.3.2 Installing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2 Verify installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3 Operating your tape drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.1 Loading a cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.2 Unloading a cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.3 Removing power from the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

4 Cautions concerning backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4.1 Ejecting the data cartridge after backup . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4.2 Data compression rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4.3 Backup performance/capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

4.4 Points to note during system configuration . . . . . . . . . 16

5 Use the correct media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

5.1 Cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

5.1.1 Cleaning cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

5.1.2 Data cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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5.2 Cartridge life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

5.3 Write protecting cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

5.4 WORM data cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

5.5 LTO-5 tape drives and encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

5.5.1 When should I use encryption? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5.5.2 How do I enable encryption? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5.5.3 What happens if I don't remember the key? . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5.5.4 Does encryption affect tape drive performance? . . . . . . . . . 21

5.5.5 Does the tape drive encrypt media in an earlier LTO format? . . 22

5.5.6 Where can I get more information? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

5.6 Cleaning the tape drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.7 Handling cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.8 Storage environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

6 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

6.1 General Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

6.2 Understanding LED sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

6.2.1 Encryption LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

6.3 Problems with cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

6.3.1 The cartridge is jammed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

6.3.2 The drive will not accept the cartridge (or ejects it immediately) . 34

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About this guide

This guide provides information about:

●Installing the LTO-5 SAS half-height tape drive

●Using the LTO-5 SAS half-height tape drive

●Troubleshooting the LTO-5 SAS half-height tape drive

Intended audience

This guide is intended for users who install, operate and maintain the LTO-5

half-height tape drive.

Document conventions and symbols

Convention Element

Blue text: table 1 on page 5 Cross-reference links and e-mail addresses

Bold text ●Keys that are pressed

●Text typed into a GUI element, such as a box

●GUI elements that are clicked or selected,

such as menu and list items, buttons, tabs,

and check boxes

Italic text Text emphasis

Monospace text ●File and directory names

●System output

●Code

●Commands, their arguments, and argument

values

Monospace, italic text ●Code variables

●Command variables

Monospace, bold text Emphasized monospace text

Table 1: Document conventions

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WWARNING! Indicates that failure to follow directions could result

in bodily harm or death.

VCAUTION: Indicates that failure to follow directions could result

in damage to equipment or data.

IIMPORTANT: Provides clarifying information or specific

instructions.

NOTE: Provides additional information.

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1 Getting started

In this chapter:

●"Your LTO-5 tape drive" on page 7

●"How do I connect the drive to my server?" on page 8

1.1 Your LTO-5 tape drive

Figure 1: Front view of LTO–5 SAS tape drive

1. Drive door 5. Drive LED

2. Encryption LED 6. Ready LED

3. Clean LED 7. Eject button

4. Tape LED

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How do I connect the drive to my server?

1.2 How do I connect the drive to my server?

The tape drive is installed into a 5¼-inch drive bay in your server and is attached

to the host server's internal SAS controller or SAS host bus adapter, as

illustrated below.

Connect a spare power cable from the server's internal power supply to the

power connector on the SAS data cable.

Figure 2: Connecting cables to the LTO—5 tape drive

1. Power connector on data cable 2. SAS connector to tape drive (SFF-8482

SAS cable with power)

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Drivers

1.3 Drivers

The driver can be obtained from the Fujitsu ServerView Suite DVD, for updates

please check http://support.ts.fujitsu.com. Refer also to the documentation of your

software application to ensure you are using the recommended driver.

1.3.1 Installing on Windows

Install as instructed in the readme file in the drivers directory.

1.3.2 Installing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Drivers are included with the operating system and should be loaded

automatically.

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Drivers

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