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AM-64x DAT High Capacity Tape Drives
PDI-00649-00, A01
DWF-20652-00
MOUNTING RAIL
Figure 16 - Attaching Mounting Rails to Peripheral
Once the rails are installed, slide the tape drive into its mounting position in the chassis. Make a pin-1 to
pin-1 connection between the SCSI connector on the back of the drive and the interface cable (if
attaching the drive to a 68-pin wide SCSI cable, be sure to use the correct adapter); plug in the power
cable and the installation is complete.
The DAT tape drive can be mounted horizontally as shown, or vertically on either side. However,
the drive should never be mounted upside-down!
SOFTWARE INFORMATION FOR DAT DRIVES
There are several points to remember when using DAT drives:
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Depending on your system configuration, it may be possible to support up to four DAT drives in
the same system. Also, a DAT drive can be used with a Tandberg streaming tape drive.
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DAT tape drives are not supported in S-100 bus computers, or in AM-1000/1200 computers
without a Roadrunner upgrade.
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AM-647 drives must be used with AMOS 1.4 or 2.2, or later.
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AM-648 and AM-649 drives must be used with AMOS 1.4C or 2.2C, or later.
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Later model AM-649-01 drives (those labeled C1599A) must be used with AMOS 1.4C, PR
6/97, or AMOS 2.3A, or later, only.
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The first DAT tape drive must be referred to as DAT0:.
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The device driver, DAT.DVR, must be loaded into system memory.
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Since AMOS scans from the highest SCSI ID to the lowest, if you want to warm boot from your
DAT drive it must be addressed to a higher SCSI ID than any other tape drive on the bus.
