Seagate Scorpion 40 Installation Manual page 12

Scorpion 40 Installation Manual, Rev. A 9
and writes to MRS media and reads from but does not write
to non-MRS media. If switch 3 is OFF, the drive reads or
writes both MRS and non-MRS media.
Power-on self-test enable/disable (switch 4)
Switch 4 enables or disables execution of power-on self-test
diagnostics when the drive is powered on. If switch 4 is ON
(the default setting), the drive responds to SCSI commands
only after successful completion of the self-test (about 5
seconds). If switch 4 is OFF, the drive does not perform a
power-on self test.
Operating System configuration (switches 5 through 8)
Switches 5 through 8 are used to configure the drive for use
with UNIX and other non-Windows operating systems, as
described starting on page 25 of this manual. The default
setting for all four of these switches is ON.
SCSI Wide/Narrow (switch 9)
Switch 9 enables or disables SCSI Wide operation on the
SCSI bus. When switch 9 is ON (the default setting), the
drive is capable of operating in Wide (16-bit) SCSI mode.
When switch 9 is OFF, the drive will only operate as a
Narrow (8-bit) SCSI device.
Note: If switch 9 if set to OFF, the drive can only use SCSI
ID values 0 through 7.
Inquiry String (switch 10)
Switch 10 is used to select the Vendor ID that the drive
returns when queried with a SCSI Inquiry command. When
switch 10 is ON (the default setting), the Vendor ID will be
"SEAGATE DAT." When switch 10 is OFF the Vendor ID will
be "ARCHIVE Python." The "ARCHIVE Python" Vendor ID
may be used by independent software vendors to provide
software compatibility with previous Seagate DDS tape
drives.