Quantum manual Scsi Termination Examples for the Desktop LTO-3 Tape Drive

Chapter 2 Installation

Installing a Desktop LTO-3 Tape Drive

connection. This means you can use either connector to attach the drive to a host computer or to another SCSI device.

1Turn off all power to the drive and the computer.

2Attach 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 If the desktop LTO-3 Tape Drive is the last or only device in a SCSI chain,

Termination install a terminating plug on the unused SCSI connector. See figure 10 for two SCSI termination examples.

Note: Termination power is enabled as a default for desktop drives.

Figure 10 SCSI Termination Examples for the Desktop LTO-3 Tape Drive

	External
	SCSI device
	SCSI Terminators
External	External
Tape Drive	Tape Drive

External

SCSI device

SCSI Controller

(termination enabled)

SCSI Controller

(termination disabled)

Internal

SCSI device

(termination enabled)

Example 1: SCSI termination in a system that has only external SCSI devices.

Example 2: SCSI termination in a system that has both internal and external SCSI devices.

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