Installing the Tabletop LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive
9
LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive
• See the internal parallel SCSI bus termination examples in
figure 3
on page 6
to check/verify the system SCSI bus configuration and install a 68-pin LVD
SCSI bus terminator, as required.
b
For the SAS internal drive, attach the internal SAS interface cable to the 7-pin 1x
SATA-style SAS connector on the back of the drive.
3
If you are installing the internal LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive in a tape library
system, connect the RS-422 serial interface cable to the serial library port on the back
of the drive. (The serial library port is not used on workstation or server systems.)
4
Connect the internal drive DC power cable to the DC power connector on the back of
the drive.
5
Reinstall the system cover.
6
Reconnect the system AC power cord to the facility AC power receptacle.
After connecting the internal drive interface and DC power cables, proceed to
Restarting
the Internal Tape Drive System
in the following subsection.
Restarting the Internal
Tape Drive System
0
After connecting the internal drive interface and DC power cables:
1
Restart the workstation or server system.
2
Verify that the internal LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive comes on and completes the
Power On Self Test (POST) functions.
3
As required, proceed to either:
•
Installing the LTO Driver Software
on page 13
•
Registering the LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive
on page 13
Installing the Tabletop LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive
To install the tabletop LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive, complete the following procedures
in the order presented:
1
Depending on the interface configuration of the drive:
IF the drive interface is . . .
THEN . . .
parallel Small Computer
System Interface (SCSI),
proceed to
Configuring the Tabletop Parallel SCSI
Tape Drive
in the following subsection to configure
the SCSI ID.
serial-attached SCSI (SAS),
there is no need to configure the SCSI ID, as SAS
is a point-to-point architecture. Skip to
Connecting
the Tabletop Drive Interface and AC Power Cables
on page 11.
