Installing The External Tape Drive And Printer; Installing The Tape Drive - Nortel Meridian 1 Planning, Installation And Operating Instructions

Chapter 20 — Meridian Mail Compact Option installation and maintenance

Installing the external tape drive and printer

Installing the tape drive

Option 11C Compact
The external tape drive is used to install and upgrade software, and to make
backups of Meridian Mail Compact Option data. It can be attached
permanently to the SCSI connector on the Meridian Mail Compact Option
voice mail card or installed only when needed.
Procedure 41
Installing the external tape drive
1 Unless you are installing Meridian Mail Compact Option for the first
time, courtesy down. To courtesy-down follow
2 Set the power selector switch at the back of the tape drive to the
correct voltage for your area.
3 Plug the tape drive's power cord into the same circuit used by the
Option 11C Compact cabinet.
4 Set the SCSI address for the appropriate tape drive to 1 as described
in Table 27.
5 If you have an Archive tape drive, go to step 6. If you have a Tandberg
tape drive go to step 7.
6 For the Archive tape drive, plug the SCSI cable into either SCSI
connector and plug a SCSI terminator (A0379544) into the other
connector.
7 For the Tandberg tape drive, plug the SCSI cable into the the SCSI
connector marked IN on the back of the tape drive.
Note: Unlike the Archive drive, the Tandberg drive has internal
terminating resistors. You must not connect an external SCSI
terminator to the SCSI connector marked OUT (see
back of the Tandberg tape drive. Leave the OUT connector unused.
8 For either tape drive, connect the other end of the tape drive cable to
the SCSI connector on the faceplate of the Meridian Mail Compact
Option card.
9 Attach the grounding wire on the tape drive cable to a convenient
ground connection on the Option 11C Compact cabinet.
Note: Procedure continues on page
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