Owner manual
Table Of Contents
- DAT SAS Tape Drives
- Table of Contents
- About this guide
- 1 Before you start
- 2 Drivers and backup software
- 3 Installing an internal DAT tape drive
- 4 Installing an external SAS tape drive
- 5 Verify installation
- 6 Operating your tape drive
- 7 Use the correct media
- 8 Using HP OBDR
- 9 Diagnostic Tools and Performance
- 10 Troubleshooting
- 11 Replacing an internal tape drive
- A Connecting an external tape drive to an internal SAS port
- Index
Supported cable configurations
The internal tape drive may be installed in one of three configurations:
• Connect to a dedicated HBA. If necessary, install an additional SAS HBA and HBA driver.. This
is the recommended configuration and is suitable for HP and non-HP servers. It is described as
Option 1 in this section.
• Connect the tape drive to a spare SAS port on the host SAS controller. This cabling option is
suitable for some HP ProLiant servers only. It is described as Option 2 in this section.
• Use the existing SAS controller, but replace one of the existing SAS cables to the hard disk drive
bays. This requires some recabling inside the server, and may also disconnect one of the hard
disk drive bays. This configuration is suitable for some HP ProLiant servers only and, if it does
disconnect a hard disk drive bay, you must be sure that the bay is not required for use. Do not
move a hard disk to create an empty bay because you may damage your server configuration.
This cabling option is described as Option 3 in this section.
CAUTION:
Option 3 normally disconnects the data path to the highest-numbered disk bay, but it is not always
possible to identify which disk this is. For this reason, do not use option 3 with RAID configurations.
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