Exabyte 440, 480 manual Prepare the host computer

Hardware Installation

➤Important Your library has been shipped to you with the tape drives pre-installed. For libraries that will operate with fewer than four tape drives, drive blanks have been installed in the unused carrier slots. For more information, see “Using drive blanks” on page 140.

Step 3 – Prepare the host computer

Make sure your SCSI host bus adapter card or cards installed in the host computer and its application software are compatible with your library and the tape drives you are using. You can obtain software compatibility information for Exabyte products from Exabyte’s web site (www.exabyte.com).

You can install the software application on the host computer before or after library installation. However, if you install the software first, you may need to reconfigure it for use with the library.

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