Installation guide

1-16 Hardware installation

Meridian Mail Card Option Release 9.0

If the tape drive has been correctly mounted on the wall, insert tapes with the

label facing the wall and the opening facing upwards.

The tapes you receive from Northern Telecom are 3M brand DC6250 tapes.

Be sure to use this tape format for your backups.

Removing a tape

Slide the handle on the front of the drive to the left until it the tape is ejected

from the drive. Do not attempt to remove a tape when the drive is running.

Removing the external tape drive

For systems not equipped with a permanently installed external tape drive, the

Meridian 1 representative is responsible for all software procedures that re-

quire a tape drive and should therefore include a tape drive as part of his or

her standard equipment.

To remove the external tape drive:

Courtesy Down Meridian Mail and turn it off. (Refer to page 4-5.)

2 Turn off the power to the tape drive and unplug it.

3 Detach the grounding wire from the Meridian 1 cabinet.

4 Unplug the SCSI cable from the Disk/Power Supply Card and install an

SCSI terminator in its place.

5 Start Meridian Mail. (Refer to page 4-6.)

Installing a printer

Connecting a printer to the System Administrator’s terminal allows the ad-

ministrator to print reports using Meridian Mail’s Operational Measurements

function.

CAUTION

Potential data loss

Whenever an external tape drive is not attached to the

Disk/Power Supply Card, install the SCSI terminator

in its place.