IBM Ultrium Gen 6, Installation And User Manual

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Chapter 1. Introduction
The product description of the IBM Half High LTO Ultrium Gen 6 Internal SAS
Tape Drive.
The IBM Half High LTO Ultrium Gen 6 Internal SAS Tape Drive is a
high-performance, high-capacity data-storage device that is designed to back up
and restore open systems applications. The drive can be integrated into an
enclosure, such as a desktop unit, server, tape autoloader, or tape library. It is the
sixth generation in the Ultrium series of products, and is available with a Serial
Attached SCSI interface (SAS). This model incorporates the Linear Tape-Open
(LTO) IBM Ultrium 6 Half High Tape Drive.
Read this entire document and the IBM Safety Information , Safety Information Labels ,
Warranty , and Environmental Notices and User Guide documents that come with the
drive before you install or use the drive.
The Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) part numbers and the Option part numbers
for the IBM LTO 6 Half High Tape Drive are shown in the following list:
Table 1. CRU and Option part numbers
Description CRU part number Option part number
IBM Internal Half High LTO
Gen 6 SAS Tape Drive 35P1049 00D8924
SAS cable (internal) 49Y9901
Tape Mount Kit 41Y7711
Drive features
The tape drive offers the following features.
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Dual port 6 Gbps Serial Attached Small Computer Systems Interface (SAS)
Note:
Although the tape drive has two SAS ports, the drive supports only one
host connection.
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Half height form factor
Figure 1. View of a tape drive
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