Tandberg Data SDLT 600 - Manual (Page 65)

SDLT 600 Product Manual Chapter 4: Installing Your Tape Drive
81-81184-02 REV A01 March 2004 4-17
4.5 Configuring and Installing an Internal Tape
Drive with Fibre Channel Interface
This section provides information for configuring and installing a tape drive with the Fibre Channel
interface into a system.
4.5.1 Fibre Channel Introduction
Fibre Channel is the name of an integrated set of standards developed by the American National
Standards Institute (ANSI). The intention of the Fibre Channel specification is to develop a practical,
inexpensive, yet expandable means of quickly transferring data between workstations, mainframes,
supercomputers, desktop computers, storage devices, display terminals, and other peripherals.
Fibre Channel is an open T11 and ANSI standard based on a block-oriented serial network protocol
that brings together some of the best features of the channel world and the network world. Fibre
Channel is full-duplex (meaning that data can travel in both directions simultaneously), and offers a
variety of different cabling options.
Fibre Channel is a high performance serial link transport protocol that supports higher level protocols
such as the FDDI, SCSI, HIPPI, and IPI. Fibre Channel addresses the need for very fast transfers of
large amounts of information. The majority of Fibre Channel devices available in the market today
operate at speeds of 1 to 2 Gb/s.
For complete information on how Fibre Channel is implemented in the SDLT 600 tape drive, refer to
the SDLT 600 Fibre Channel Interface Guide (81-81202-01).
N OTE : Fibre Channel interface is ONLY available with the internal model, it is
not available with the tabletop model.
Figure 4-7 on page 4-18 shows the SDLT 600 Fibre Channel connectors and jumper blocks located on
the rear of the unit.
C AUTION Before you begin, review the safety, ESD, and handling
precautions described in
“Safety, Handling, and ESD
Protection” on page 4-2 to avoid personal injury or damage to
equipment.