#tapedrive

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For servers with more complex user-defined data types tape drives have still remained relevant in modern data centers.

Hi we're going to combine actually three different topics  even though we called this first topic  how to test a tape drive using IBM I TDT  tools in the case of an HP drive using  HP LTL tools we're just going to cover  the IBM testing today the second half  that we're going to talk about the chip  reader and a little bit of technology on  how LTO media reports data transferred  from the tape drive that tells how it's performing and the third one's got to be just an overview of what we do in the lab show you a little bit of our equipment that we use and how to go from there so I'm gonna slide over here I to the left and we're gonna start off on this particular screen over here and what we have is just our Windows screen.

  I'm gonna activate this IBM ITDT and this is the Dell version it's  very similar to the IBM but this is the  kind of screen that you'd wanna you'll  end up seeing and you can download that  up here it indicates ITDT - DRC and  you can just type an ITDT on your  Google search engine and you can  download a Dell version or the IBM so  this is the first screen you're gonna  come up with now I have a tape inserted  in here the steps to be an LTO for SAS  interface it's ready to go so what I'm  going to do is I'm taking the cursor up  here to scan okay I'm gonna click on the  Scan button and it says you know you're gonna scan your system for attention ladies to stop your backup would you like to continue yes okay activating that so it's scanning for devices and it identified a device okay  all three I'm half pi Delta yo for a  serial number whatever hit it  conveniently checked it for me so which  is kind of nice  typically you would want to go just over  here to the test function.

 Click on  that but you have some other things you  can do here I mean you can do some  internal diagnose diagnostics exercise  test eject as preset system test you can  do a firmware upgrade from here if you  wanted to do that and you can run  certain configurations on it if you want  to do there so we're just going to go  make sure this is highlighted that's the  device and we're just gonna go test so  it's mounted the refurbished tape drive it's starting the  testing protocol and this will sometimes  you get a screen I had it up and running  but sometimes you get a screen saying  you know make sure this is a scratch  tape so you don't lose any of your data  because it over writes the data on the  tape and so we're not gonna sit and  watch this for 18 minutes because that's  how long it takes but once it completes  we did kind of the just a printout of  the test results and all of our tape  drives that we sell or repair ship with  these test test results so what a  customer sends are driving for repair it  worked at I our environment why is it  worth it looking  you can kind of work through those  things this particular one here is a HP  LTO fine okay and it's the model  number it shows the power on these and  this has been powered on for sixteen  hundred and seventy-one dates okay it's  gone through two hundred eighty three  power on power off cycles and it was  manufactured in 2012  now we Scrolls to reduce results to see  the throughput in megabytes per second.