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. Use the arrow keys to move the highlight cursor to other
. boxes. Press <enter> to choose the option in the highlighted
. box. Or, press the function keys F1-F6 to choose an
. option immediately. Use arrow keys to move to another
. box, then press F1 for help with that option.
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. Use the Setup screen to choose which parallel LPT port
. or serial COM port you are using to connect the tape
. drive to your computer.
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. The System Test performs a brief test of the tape drive
. connections, and basic tape drive functions. This menu
. also has options for erasing and retensioning tapes.
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. The Image Backup screen will allow you to select a
. physical hard disk unit then backup all sectors to
. a backup tape. The physical drive units will be
. detected and displayed by the software. Press the
. number key (0 or 1) for the drive unit you want to
. select for backup. Sectors will be grouped in chunks
. of 16 MB and given symbolic names in the backup
. tagging screen.
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. The Image Restore screen allows you to restore an
. image backup from tape to your hard disk. The 
. restore destination drive must have identical values
. to the backed up drive for the number of heads, and 
. sectors-per-track. The destination drive must also 
. be as large as the source drive.
. 
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. The Verify program allows you to verify that the
. contents of the tape can be read. Every dataset on
. the tape is read in sequence.
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. If a serial port will be used to communicate with the
. tape drive then press + until the correct COM port name
. appears, then set the Parallel Port to "none". If the
. parallel port will be used this Serial Port setting is
. not used.
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. If a parallel port will be used to communicate with
. the tape drive then press + until the correct LPT port
. name appears. If the serial port will be used then
. press + until "none" appears.
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. Leave the baud rate set at 115.2K unless you have reason
. to suspect that your computer will not support this high
. baud rate. Press + to change the baud rate. Nearly all
. computers will support the highest baud rate, 115.2K.
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. Leave this option set to NORMAL. The other selections are
. primarily for diagnostic use.
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. To avoid the registration process for now press F10. This
. will by-pass the registration steps and run the software.
.
. To begin the registration press F5. The registration form
. will appear on the screen. Fill in the information then
. follow the prompts to either print out the form or send the
. form to a text file named REGFORM.TXT for printing later.
. Print out the form and mail or fax it to Valitek, Inc.
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. Fill in the registration information, then press F10 to end.
. You may press <ESC> to abort out of the registration process
. but you will be prompted to register again later.
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. To print out the registration form determine which port your
. printer is connected to, then press 1 for LPT1, 2 for LPT2, or
. 3 for LPT3. If you are uncertain then you may press P to
. attempt to print the file to the default printer. If you do
. not have a printer press N. The form will be copied to a text
. file named REGFORM.TXT which can be copied to another PC for
. printing. You may also write the information on paper and FAX
. it to Valitek. Include the words "Warranty Registration" on
. the FAX.
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