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Eject

If the cartridge is mounted, the eject button on the actiDisk RDX drive will not work properly. Use the eject command to

unmount and eject the cartridge.

NOTE: The eject command cannot properly handle un-mount if multiple partitions are present on a removable disk.

Each mounted partition must be un-mounted manually or the eject command will fail.

Backup With tar

The tar command works with actiDisk RDX docking stations by writing the archive to a ﬁ le on the cartridge.

Use the tar -M option to create archives which span multiple cartridges on the actiDisk RDX docking station. For spanning re-

movable disk cartridges use the tar -M -L size option (where size is the cartridge capacity in kilobytes) when creating multiple-

volume backups. For more information refer to the man page for tar.

8.4 Troubleshooting

SCSI Device Status

To ﬁ nd out whether the actiDisk RDX drive is recognized by the system, issue the following command:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

This will print out a list of all the SCSI devices in the system. The list should include any actiDisk RDX drives recognized by the

system. If the actiDisk RDX docking station is not listed, check cable connections and power supplies (and BIOS settings for

the SATA product.)

e2fsck File System Check Fails

If the e2fsck program is unable to successfully complete the ﬁ le check of an ext2/ext3 cartridge, check to make sure you

have the latest version of e2fsprogs installed. Under certain circumstances, earlier versions (pre 1.35) of e2fsck included

with some distribution are unable to complete the ﬁ le systems check.

Product Registration and Support

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Copyrights

When writing to an actiDisk RDX cartridge, make sure you are not infringing any copyrights. When backing up software, please

make sure that you are not infringing any software copyrights for that product.

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