HP Ultrium 460 and Adaptec 29160

[Anthony Capone_1]

Alright, I got the cable today from Monoprice. Cable quality appeared to be very good, and IT FIT! So, I proceeded to install the card, the cable and the drive. All went smoothly! Windows recognized everything, I was even able to upgrade the firmware on the tape drive. The drive is currently erasing the tape, 4 hours to go.

Anything specific I should be doing to test out the cable quality? Or should I be satisfied so far? Also, not even sure if the tape is good,it came used from Ebay.

[Johan Guldmyr]

In HP LTT - library and tape tools - there are some test for the tape drive (like read/write test), not specifically for the cable though.