Connecting the Hardware

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5.If you have a printer cable attached to the computer’s parallel port, disconnect it from the computer and plug it into the tape drive’s connector shown below.

Drive’s power connector

Secure the connector by tightening the retaining screws.

Printer’s data cable

(If a printer is sharing the parallel port with the tape drive)

Printer connector

The data cable that came with your drive attaches to the computer’s parallel port and the tape drive’s remaining 25-pin connector.

Attach this end to

Attach this end to the

the tape drive.

computer’s parallel port.

 

6.Attach the tape-drive data cable to your computer’s parallel port and hand tighten the connector’s retaining screws.

Tape-drive data cable

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HP 5GB, 8GB manual Attach this end to Tape drive