Installing And Replacing Drives; Installing In A Server; Identifying The Model; Standards And Safety - HP HPE StoreEver LTO-8 Ultrium Tape Technical Reference Manual

Installing and replacing drives

If you are installing the tape drive on a UNIX system, refer to the UNIX Configuration Guide, Volume 5 of
the HPE LTO Ultrium Technical Reference Manual.

Installing in a server

Full details of how to install an internal LTO Ultrium tape drive into a server drive bay is given in the
Getting Started Guide.

Identifying the model

The model name is on the front panel and the product and serial numbers are on a label on the top of the
drive.

Standards and safety

Use the drive only in equipment where the suitability of the combination has been determined by an
appropriate certification organization. Examples of certification organizations in North America are
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. and Canadian Standards Association. Examples of certification
organizations in Europe are British Standards Institution and Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker. Other
considerations include the following:
1. A drive must be installed in an enclosure to limit an operator's access to live parts. It will provide
system stability and give the drive the necessary grounding integrity.
2. A drive must be supplied by a Safety-Extra-Low-Voltage (secondary) circuit in accordance with DIN
VDE 0805. During incorporation of the equipment, all requirements of DIN VDE 0805 must be
observed and obeyed.
NOTE:
The drives are only fused to protect them from excessive currents.

Requirements

Mounting requirements
Half-height drives require one industry standard 5¼-inch, half-height bay.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends 0.3 mm mounting clearance around all covers to allow the
Flexible Mounting Points (FMP) to operate correctly.
For many servers, no mounting tray or rails are required. Devices simply slide into the chassis of the
computer, and are fixed with screws. Other servers have built-in trays or rails. Yet others require a special
mounting tray or rails to fix the drive into the empty bay.
Refer to your server documentation for details on how to install drives.
Server connections
You need a properly installed and configured SAS host bus adapter (HBA) or a built-in SAS controller on
the server.
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