3: Installing The Tape Drives; Drive Installation Cautions; Chapter 3, Installing The Tape Drives - StorageTek L180 Installation Manual

Installing the Tape Drives
This chapter contains the procedures for installing tape drives in the library.

Drive Installation Cautions

Read the following cautions before installing drives.
CAUTION:
Potential equipment damage:
• Do not power on the library until this manual indicates to do so.
• Do not mix single-ended or LVD drives with HVD drives on the same
SCSI bus.
• Do not mix single-ended or differential terminators on the same SCSI
bus.
• Before connecting SCSI drives to a server, make sure that the client's
SCSI terminator is on and that the terminator type (LVD, HVD, or
single-ended) matches the SCSI bus type.
• Possible data loss: StorageTek does not advise mixing DLT 7000 and
DLT 8000 drives in the same library. If a DLT 7000 cartridge is
inserted into a DLT 8000 drive, the tape can be read and written in
7000 mode. If a DLT 8000 cartridge is inserted into a DLT 7000 drive,
the drive will indicate an error if a read command is issued and will
write over any data present on the tape if a write command is issued
at load point.
Drives are shipped individually. Because of the size difference between them,
you may choose from a variety of ways of installing them. You may install any
drive into any location that it fits, except in the uppermost slot in the drive
column, which is reserved for a DLT drive or LTO drive only. (The T9840 drive
is too large to fit in this slot.)
Notes:
• When a drive is correctly seated in a drive slot, the power and TTI (tape
transport interface) connections between the library and drive are complete.
You do not have to install a separate TTI cable.
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