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User Guide - English

LTO-6 Half-Height SAS Tape Drive

User Guide

August 2013

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LTO-6 Half-Height SAS Tape Drive

Contents

1 Safety and Environmental Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2 About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3.1 Drive features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.2 Front panel of drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

3.3 Rear panel of the SAS drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.4 SAS interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.5 Cartridge compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.6 Backup performance/capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.7 LTO-6 tape drives and encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.7.1 When should I use encryption? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.7.2 How do I enable encryption? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.7.3 What happens if I don't remember the key? . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.7.4 Does encryption affect tape drive performance? . . . . . . . . 16

3.7.5 Does the tape drive encrypt media in an earlier LTO format? . . 17

3.7.6 Where can I get more information? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3.8 LTO-6 tape drives and partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.9 Feature Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.10 Supported device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

4 Installing the drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.1 Avoiding drive damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.2 Installation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

4.3 Install the SAS drive connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

4.4 Mount the drive into a PRIMERGY server . . . . . . . . . . 20

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4.5 Install device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5 Operating the Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.1 Single-character Display (SCD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.2 Status Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.3 Unload Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

5.4 Inserting a Tape Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

5.5 Removing a Tape Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

5.6 Mid-tape Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

5.7 Cleaning the Drive Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

5.8 Cautions Concerning Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

5.8.1 Ejecting the data cartridge after backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

5.8.2 Data compression rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

5.8.3 Backup performance/capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

5.8.4 Points to note during system configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

5.9 Diagnostic and Maintenance Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5.10 Updating Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

6 Using Ultrium Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

6.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

6.2 Cartridge Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

6.3 Using the correct media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

6.3.1 Cleaning cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

6.3.2 Data cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

6.3.3 Cartridge life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

6.3.4 Write protecting cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

6.3.5 Cleaning the tape drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

6.3.6 Handling cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

6.3.7 Storage environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

7 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

7.1 Methods of Receiving Errors and Messages . . . . . . . . . 43

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7.2 Error Codes and Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

8 Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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1 Safety and Environmental

Notices

VCAUTION!

Observe the safety instructions in the manual "Safety notes and other

important information"!

Information on handling consumables

Please dispose of printer consumables and batteries in accordance with the

applicable national regulations.

In accordance with EU directives, batteries must not be disposed of with

unsorted domestic waste. They can be returned free of charge to the

manufacturer, dealer or an authorized agent for recycling or disposal.

All batteries containing pollutants are marked with a symbol (a crossed-out

garbage can). They are also marked with the chemical symbol for the heavy

metal that causes them to be categorized as containing pollutants:

Cd Cadmium

Hg Mercury

Pb Lead

Labels on plastic casing parts

Please avoid sticking your own labels on plastic parts wherever possible, since

this makes it difficult to recycle them.

Returns, recycling and disposal

Please handle returns, recycling and disposal in accordance with local

regulations.

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Safety and Environmental Notices

Details regarding the return and recycling of devices and consumables within

Europe can also be found in the "Returning used devices" manual, via your local

Fujitsu branch or from our recycling center in Paderborn:

Fujitsu Technology Solutions

Recycling Center

D-33106 Paderborn

Tel. +49 5251 8 18010

Fax +49 5251 8 333 18010

High safety use

This product has been designed and manufactured to be used in commercial

and/or industrial areas as a server.

When used as visual display workplace, it must not be placed in the direct field

of view to avoid incommoding reflections (applies only to TX server systems).

The device has not been designed or manufactured for uses which demand an

extremely high level of safety and carry a direct and serious risk of life or body

if such safety cannot be assured.

These uses include control of nuclear reactions in nuclear power plants,

automatic airplane flight control, air traffic control, traffic control in mass

transport systems, medical devices for life support, and missile guidance

control in weapons systems (hereafter, "high safety use"). Customers should

not use this product for high safety use unless measures are in place for

ensuring the level of safety demanded of such use. Please consult the sales

staff of Fujitsu if intending to use this product for high safety use.

For all other safety issues, please refer to the server’s safety manual.

The device must not be disposed of with domestic waste. This

device is labeled in compliance with European directive

2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).

This directive sets the framework for returning and recycling used

equipment and is valid across the EU. When returning your used

device, please use the return and collection systems available to

you. Further information can be found at

http://ts.fujitsu.com/recycling.

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2 About This Book

This guide describes how to install and use the LTO-6 Half-Height SAS Tape

Drive in the following chapters:

Chapter 3, "Introduction" on page 11 provides an overview and discusses

device drivers.

Chapter 4, "Installing the drive" on page 19 gives unpacking, set up, and

configuration information.

Chapter 5, "Operating the Drive" on page 23 describes the Unload Button, and

Status Lights and explains the function of the Single-character Display. It gives

instruction on inserting and removing a tape cartridge, and explains how to

clean the tape drive.

Chapter 6, "Using Ultrium Media" on page 35 describes the types of tape

cartridges to use and defines the conditions for storing and shipping them. It

also describes how to handle the cartridges, how to set a cartridge’s write-

protect switch.

Chapter 7, "Troubleshooting" on page 41 gives tips for solving problems with

the drive.

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About This Book

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