5243-2SE Tape Drive Installation and User’s Guide — 542757-003
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Overview and Features
This section includes:
Overview
The 5243-2SE tape drive is designed for file backup and archive applications. It
contains two independent DAT72 tape drives.
The tape drive unit mounts into a telco rack and has built-in power-on-self-test (POST)
diagnostics.
The tape drive uses DAT72 tape drives and is designed to use a 170-meter DAT72
tape cartridge. The tape drive is also backward compatible with the DDS-3 tape format.
It is not backward compatible with DDS-2 or DDS-1 tape formats. The unit is
considered a field replaceable unit (FRU) and can only be installed or replaced by
qualified personnel trained by HP.
NonStop S-Series Servers
The tape drive connects to a
ServerNet/DA
,
IOMF2 CRU, or PMF CRU
on the
NonStop S-series server by a SCSI cable.
NonStop NS-Series Servers
An M8201R Fibre Channel to SCSI router must be used to connect the tape drive to
the Fibre Channel ServerNet adapter (FCSA) on the HP NonStop NS-series server.
For more information, refer to the
M8201R Fibre Channel to SCSI Router Installation
and User’s Guide
and the
Fibre Channel ServerNet Adapter Installation and Support
Guide
.
Features
The DAT72 tape drive can store 36GB of data per DAT72 cartridge and up to 72GB of
data in compressed mode (assuming a 2:1 compression factor). The tape drive has
both read and write heads and can perform read-after-write (RAW) data checking.
Specifications
For the tape drive specifications, refer to
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