HP C5644A - SureStore Travan T4i Tape Drive, User Manual

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Installing an Internal Tape Drive
Preparing the Tape Drive
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3
Determine whether the tape drive should be terminated or unterminated.
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If the tape drive is the last device or the only device on the internal SCSI bus and
the computer’s SCSI ribbon cable has no active termination, the tape drive’s
terminating resistors should remain in place. Any other device between the SCSI
controller and the tape drive must not be terminated. Go to step 4.
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If the tape drive is not the last device on the internal SCSI bus and/or the
computer’s SCSI ribbon cable has active termination (a terminator block on the
end of the cable or an in-line terminator), you must remove the terminating
resistors from the bottom of the tape drive, as shown in figure 2.4.
Figure 2.4 Removing the terminating resistors
Bottom of
tape drive
Lift the three resistors
straight out of their
sockets using
needle-nose pliers
SCSI ID jumpers