Seagate Scorpion 240 DDS-4, Installation Manual

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Scorpion 240 Autoloader Installation Manual A-13
Figure 2 shows the location of dip switches on the underside
of the internal Scorpion 240. Each of these switches is
described in detail on subsequent pages.
Note. Power down the drive before changing jumpers or dip
switches. Changes take effect when the drive restarts.
Figure 2. Dip-switch settings for internal Scorpion 240
Data compression (DC)
SCSI DC control
Media recognition
Self Test
Wide/Narrow SCSI
Inquiry String support
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
O
N
Default settings shown
Operating-system
configuration
switches
Data compression (switches 1 and 2)
If switch 1 is ON (the default setting), hardware data
compression is enabled when the drive is powered on. If
switch 1 is OFF, hardware data compression is disabled at
power-on.
If dip switch 2 is ON (the default setting) then SCSI commands
can be used to enable or disable hardware data compression. To
prevent hardware data compression from being enabled or
disabled by SCSI commands, set dip switch 2 to OFF.
Media-recognition system (switch 3)
The media-recognition system allows the drive to determine
whether a given tape cartridge conforms to the DDS tape
standard. Use of non-DDS media may appear to give