Before You Start; Which Operating Systems Are Supported; How Do I Connect The Drive To My Server - HP StorageWorks Ultrium 232i Getting Started Manual

Before you start

HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drives are high-performance Ultra 160 SCSI half-height
devices with a maximum burst transfer speed of 160 MB/second. They are designed to
operate on a low voltage differential SCSI bus (LVDS). For a detailed product specification,
please refer to our World Wide Web site (
drive, you should consider the following:

Which operating systems are supported?

HP StorageWorks Ultrium drives can be connected to servers running under Windows®,
NetWare, HP-UX, Tru64, Linux and several other industry-standard operating systems. Refer to
the "HP StorageWorks Tape Software Compatibility" topic on our World Wide Web site
( www.hp.com/go/connect ) for more information about the operating systems and
versions that are supported.

How do I connect the drive to my server?

The tape drive is installed into a spare drive bay in your server (or into an HP Rack-Mount
Option Kit) and is attached to the SCSI bus of the host server via a spare connection on the
internal SCSI ribbon cable.
You will need a properly installed and configured SCSI host bus adapter (HBA) or a built-in
SCSI controller on your server with a correctly terminated, LVDS-compatible ribbon cable with
a spare 68-pin, high density (HD), wide SCSI connector. For most servers we recommend that
you use the terminated SCSI ribbon cable supplied with the drive, see page 19.
For optimum performance your tape drive should only be connected to a SCSI bus that can
transfer data at a rate that supports the tape drive's maximum burst transfer speed, see
Table 1, "supported SCSI bus types," on page 9, and it should be the only device on the SCSI
bus. Do not attach the drive to the same SCSI bus as your disk drive or RAID controller (unless
you are connecting to a ProLiant server with a Smart Array 6i RAID controller).
How can I check the SCSI bus?
We strongly recommend that you use HP Library & Tape Tools to check your server's current
SCSI configuration (see "HP Library & Tape Tools" on page 34). This will provide information
about the SCSI bus and the SCSI IDs in use.
HP Library & Tape Tools is the recommended diagnostic and support tool for your HP tape
storage product. It is available on the CD shipped with your product or as a free download
from the HP web site and is supported on nearly all major operating systems.
See www.hp.com/support/tapetools for compatibility information, updates and the
latest version of the tool.
www.hp.com ). Before starting to install your tape
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