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Installing a Desktop LTO-3 Tape Drive
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connection. This means you can use either connector to attach the drive to
a host computer or to another SCSI device.
1
Turn off all power to the drive and the computer.
2
Attach the SCSI interface cable to one of the 68-pin SCSI interface
connectors on the back of the drive (see
).
Checking the SCSI
Termination
2
If the desktop LTO-3 Tape Drive is the last or only device in a SCSI chain,
install a terminating plug on the unused SCSI connector. See
for
two SCSI termination examples.
Figure 10 SCSI
Termination Examples
for the Desktop LTO-3
Tape Drive
Note:
Termination power is enabled as a default for desktop drives.
External
Tape Drive
SCSI Controller
(termination enabled)
External
SCSI device
External
Tape Drive
SCSI Terminators
SCSI Controller
(termination disabled)
Internal
SCSI device
(termination
enabled)
Example 1: SCSI termination
in a system that has only
external SCSI devices.
External
SCSI device
Example 2: SCSI termination
in a system that has both
internal and external SCSI
devices.