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1 before you start, Your hp storeever lto ultrium tape drive, Which operating systems are supported – HP StoreEver Ultrium Tape Drives User Manual

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1 Before you start

In this chapter:

Your LTO Ultrium tape drive (page 6)

Which operating systems are supported? (page 6)

Power specifications (page 7)

How do I connect the drive to my server? (page 7)

HP Storage SPOCK (page 9)

Using the HP Tape CD-ROM (page 11)

LTFS and HP StoreOpen Standalone (page 11)

Your HP StoreEver LTO Ultrium tape drive

This guide describes how to install and operate the following HP StoreEver LTO Ultrium tape drives:

HP StoreEver LTO-6 Ultrium 6650 internal and external tape drives

HP StoreEver LTO-5 Ultrium 3280 internal and external tape drives

HP StoreEver LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 internal and external tape drives

For a detailed product specification, please refer to our website (

http://www.hp.com/go/tape

).

Figure 1 Front view of LTO Ultrium external tape drive

5. Drive LED

1. On/Off switch (external drives only)

6. Tape LED

2. Eject button

7. Clean LED

3. Emergency reset button

8. Encryption LED (LTO–6 and LTO–5 only)

4. Ready LED

NOTE:

LTO-4 tape drives do not have an Encryption LED.

Which operating systems are supported?

HP LTO Ultrium drives can be connected to servers running under Windows®, Linux, UNIX and
other major operating systems. Refer to the QuickSpecs available from the product website or to
the SPOCK website (

http://www.hp.com/storage/spock

) for the most recent information about

the operating system versions that are supported.

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