M8505 Tabletop Tape Drive Installation and User's Guide

M8505 Tabletop Tape Drive Installation and User’s Guide—541949-002
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1 Overview and Features
This section includes:
Overview
The tape drive is a LTO Ultrium Generation 3 single cartridge loader unit. It is designed
for backup operations for NonStop servers. The tape drive only comes in a tabletop
configuration.
This tape drive connects to the Fibre Channel ServerNet adapter (FCSA) on the
NonStop server by a fiber-optic cable. Figure 1-1 shows how the tape drive connects to
the NonStop NS-series server.
Overview 1-1
Features 1-2
Figure 1-1. Hardware Configuration
NonStop NS-Series
Server
FCSA
Fiber-optic Cable
Tape Drive