User's Guide

Chapter 3 Installing External Tape Drives
Connecting a Power Cable
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Figure 16 Two SCSI Termination
Examples for the External Tape
Drives
Connecting a Power Cable 3
To connect a power cable to the external tape drive:
1 Connect a power cable to the AC power connector on the back of the
external tape drive (see figure 15
).
2 Connect the other end of the power cable to a working AC outlet.
Note: Choose an AC outlet that is not controlled by a wall
switch, which can turn off power to the AC outlet and to
the external tape drive.
SCSI Controller
(termination enabled)
SCSI Terminators
External Tape Drive
External SCSI device
External
SCSI device
SCSI Controller
(termination disabled)
Internal SCSI device
(termination enabled)
Example 2: SCSI termination
in a system that has both
internal and external SCSI
devices.
Example 1: SCSI termination
in a system that has only
external SCSI devices.
External Tape
Drive