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Installing the Internal LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive
LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive Quick Start Guide
Figure 3 Internal Parallel SCSI
Bus Termination Examples
After configuring the parallel SCSI ID and bus termination power, proceed to
Mounting
the Internal Tape Drive
in the following subsection.
Mounting the Internal
Tape Drive
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You can mount the internal LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive either horizontally or
vertically, but not upside down (see
figure 4
).
Figure 4 Acceptable Mounting
Orientations
Note:
The internal parallel SCSI LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive does not provide
SCSI termination. The last device at the end of the parallel SCSI bus chain must
have a SCSI bus terminator.
IF you mount the drive . . .
THEN the . . .
horizontally,
base of the drive must be within 15 degrees of
horizontal.
vertically,
side of the drive must be within 5 degrees of
horizontal.
Tape drive
(no termination)
SCSI device
(termination
disabled)
SCSI controller
(termination
enabled)
SCSI device
(termination enabled)
Tape drive
(no termination)
SCSI controller
(termination enabled)
SCSI terminator
SCSI terminator
YES YES YES NO
