Part 2: User's Guide
Product Description
The 12/24 GB
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DDS/3 4 mm Internal Tape Drive is a Fast SCSI-2
tape drive for backing up and restoring data and archiving files. Tape
cartridges can each store 12 GB of data. If you use data compression,
you might store up to 24 GB on a cartridge at a transfer rate of up to
7 GB an hour, depending on the data content.
In addition to the User's Guide, the option package contains:
12/24 GB DDS/3 4 mm Internal Tape Drive
One data cartridge
One cleaning cartridge
Four M3 x 0.5 x 6 mm mounting screws
One SCSI converter for attaching a 50-pin device to a 68-pin
cable
One 3.5-inch bezel
Before You Begin
To install this drive, you must have the following:
Single-ended SCSI host adapter meeting the SCSI-2 Fast
standards
Documentation for your computer, SCSI bus adapter, or external
enclosure
Screw driver for the mounting screws
Flat-nose pliers to remove and set jumpers (optional)
Backup and restore software
Device drivers
8
GB equals one billion bytes when referring to storage capacity.
Copyright IBM Corp. 1997
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