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Meridian America Link/Customer Controlled Routing User Manual

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80 Chapter 4: Meridian Link/CCR hardware

553-3202-210 Standard October 1998

Disk/tape unit

The disk/tape unit (shown in Figure 26) is a slide-in assembly with both a
hard disk drive and a cassette tape drive and is used for software installation
and backup. A 50-conductor ribbon cable is an integral part of the disk/tape
unit, extending the SCSI bus from the SBC card by the P2 adapter board. In
the middle of this ribbon cable is an external SCSI connector.

The following disk/tape units are available:

¥

NT7D62AA a 104-Mbyte hard disk drive and a 155-Mbyte tape drive
(found in older systems; this unit is no longer available)

¥

NT7D62AB a 172-Mbyte or a 180-Mbyte hard disk drive and a
155-Mbyte tape drive (found in older systems; this unit is no longer
available)

¥

NT7D62AC a 240-Mbyte hard disk drive and a 155-Mbyte tape drive

The following tapes are supplied with the Application Module:

¥

one that provides the operating system for the Application Module

¥

one that provides the application software

¥

at least one blank tape for backups

Note: As shown in Table 10, an Application Module with a
155-Mbyte tape drive (NT7D62) cannot use a 600-Mbyte tape.
(You cannot see through the sprocket holes of a 600-Mbyte tape.)

Table 10
Tape usage

Module

600-Mbyte tape

155-Mbyte tape

IPE Module

Read and write operations
(backup and program load)

Read operation only
(program load only)

Application Module with
155-Mbyte tape drive
(NT7D62)

Not compatible

Read and write operations
(backup and program load)