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Copyright
Copyright 2002 by Exabyte Corporation. All rights reserved. This item and the information contained
herein are the property of Exabyte Corporation. No part of this document may be reproduced,
transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer
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otherwise, without the express written permission of Exabyte Corporation, 1685 38th Street, Boulder,
Colorado 80301.
Trademark Notices
Exabyte and Exapak are registered trademarks; M2, MammothTape, SmartClean, EZ17 and NetStorM
are trademarks; People Working for You and SupportSuite are servicemarks of Exabyte Corporation.
Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) is a trademark of Sony Electronics, Inc. All other product names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Revision History
000 August 2000 Initial release
001 November 2000 Added 215M information
002 April 2001 Added AIT information
003 March 2002 Added Fibre Channel M2 information for 430M-FC
1 Preparing for installation
These instructions describe how to install or replace a tape drive in the
following Exabyte
®
libraries:
! 430M and 215M SCSI libraries with M2 tape drives
! 430A and 215A SCSI libraries with AIT tape drives
! 430M-FC Fibre Channel library with M2 tape drives
The tape drive kit contains one Exabyte Mammoth-2 (M2™) or one AIT tape
drive, pre-installed in a drive carrier. The M2 tape drive has either a SCSI or
Fibre Channel interface. The AIT tape drive has a SCSI interface. The SCSI
tape drive kit includes one wide SCSI cable. The Fibre Channel tape drive
kit includes one optical fiber cable.
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Important
The Fibre Channel M2 tape drive kit is for
the 430M-FC library only. Do not install a Fibre Channel
M2 in the 215M.
Note: You can convert a 430M library from SCSI to Fibre Channel
(430M-FC) using an upgrade kit available from Exabyte. Contact
Exabyte at 1-800-774-7172 or 1-800-392-8273 for this kit.