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Chapter 2 Installation
Installing a Desktop LTO-3 Tape Drive

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LTO-3 Tape Drive User’s Guide

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

figure 9

).

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

figure 10

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.