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Installing the Tabletop LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive
LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive Quick Start Guide
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Connecting the Tabletop Drive Interface and AC Power Cables
3
Restarting the Tabletop Tape Drive System
on page 13
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Installing the LTO Driver Software
on page 13, if required
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Registering the LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive
on page 13
Configuring the Tabletop
Parallel SCSI Tape Drive
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The factory-set default configuration of the tabletop parallel SCSI LTO-3 Half-Height
Tape Drive is:
• SCSI ID: 6
• Terminator power: enabled
Configuring the Tabletop Drive Parallel SCSI ID
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Each device on the parallel SCSI bus must have its own unique SCSI ID. Use the push-
button SCSI ID selector switch on the drive back panel to change the SCSI ID of the
tabletop LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive (see
figure 8
).
Figure 8 Tabletop Parallel
SCSI ID Selector Switch
IF the default parallel SCSI ID
configuration is . . .
THEN you can . . .
compatible with your system
SCSI bus,
skip the following subsection and proceed to
Connecting the Tabletop Drive Interface and AC
Power Cables
on page 11.
already assigned to another
device,
change the configuration of either the other
device, or the LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive, as
described in the following subsection.
Note:
You cannot disable terminator power on a tabletop parallel SCSI drive.
Note:
Parallel SCSI controllers and host adapters generally use ID 7. In some systems,
the boot drive uses ID 0 or ID 1. Avoid configuring the LTO-3 Half-Height
Tape Drive to these SCSI IDs.
Parallel SCSI ID selector switch