User's Guide

Chapter 3 Installing External Tape Drives
SCSI ID
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Table 5 External Tape Drive
Default Settings
SCSI ID 3
Each SCSI device on the bus must have its own unique ID. Your external
tape drive is shipped with a default SCSI ID of 6. If another SCSI device in
the SCSI chain is already using this ID, use the SCSI ID Selector switch on
the back of the drive to change the drive’s SCSI ID.
Parameter Default Setting
SCSI ID 6
Parity checking Enabled
Terminator power Supplied to the SCSI bus
Data compression Enabled
Media Recognition System
Checking (DDS-4 drives only)
Enabled
Power-On Self-Test diagnostic Enabled
Host operating system Microsoft Windows 98/Me/XP/
NT/2000/2003 Server
Note: If you change the drive’s default SCSI ID, avoid using SCSI
IDs 0 and 1 (which typically are assigned to a boot drive) and
SCSI ID 7 (which typically is assigned to SCSI controllers or
host bus adapters. If you change the default SCSI ID, turn the
drive power off and back on.