Chapter 2 Installation
Installing a Desktop LTO-3 Tape Drive
20 LTO-3 Tape Drive User’s Guide
connection. This means you can use either connector to attach the drive to
a host computer or to another SCSI device.
1 Turn off all power to the drive and the computer.
2 Attach 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
Termination
2
If the desktop LTO-3 Tape Drive is the last or only device in a SCSI chain,
install a terminating plug on the unused SCSI connector. See figure 10
for
two SCSI termination examples.
Figure 10 SCSI
Termination Examples
for the Desktop LTO-3
Tape Drive
Note: Termination power is enabled as a default for desktop drives.
External
Tape Drive
CSI Controller
termination enabled)
External
SCSI device
External
Tape Drive
SCSI Terminators
SCSI Controlle
(termination disable
Internal
SCSI device
(termination
enabled)
Example 1: SCSI termination
in a system that has only
external SCSI devices.
External
SCSI device
Example 2: SCSI termination
in a system that has both
internal and external SCSI
devices.
