Exabyte Mammoth-LT Owner's manual

326984-000
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Installation and
Operation

ii Exabyte Mammoth-LT
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Exabyte Corporation
1685 38th Street
Boulder, Colorado 80301
[phone]
326984-000
Revision Date Description
000 February 1999 Initial release.

Installation and Operation iii
Safety agency
standards When purchased from Exabyte, the Exabyte®Mammoth-LT Tape
Drive complies with the following domestic and international
product safety standards:
• UL Standard 1950, 1st Edition, Safety of Information Technology
Equipment
• CSAStandardC22.2No.950-95,SafetyofInformationTechnology
Equipment
• IEC 950/EN60950: A4 1997, Safety of Information Technology
Equipment including Electrical Business Equipment
The tape drive is certified as a component only. Certification of the
final integrated product is the responsibility of the system integrator.
Electro-
magnetic
compatibility
(EMC)
When properly installed in a shielded cabinet with shielded cables
and adequate grounding of the SCSI bus and input power, the tape
drive meets the requirements foremissions and immunity as defined
by the following standards:
For the tabletop tape drive, the requirement for a shielded cabinet is
met by the tabletop enclosure.
USA: FCC, CFR 47, Ch. I, Part 15, Subpart B, Class B
Canada: ICES-003, Class B
Australia: AS/NZ 3548, Class B
Taiwan: CNS-13438, Class A
Europe: EN55022/CISPR 22, Class B
EN50082-1: Residential, Commercial, and Light
Industry

iv Exabyte Mammoth-LT
FCC notice When installed in an Exabyte enclosure, the tabletop model of the
Exabyte Mammoth-LT tape drive has been tested and found to
comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part
15 of FCC rules.
These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against
harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment
generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not
installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause
interferenceto radioandtelevisioncommunications.However, there
is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular
installation. If this equipment does cause interference to equipment
off and on, the useris encouraged to tryto correct the interference by
one or more of the following measures:
• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from
that to which the receiver is connected.
• Use shielded cables.
• Consultthedealeroranexperiencedradio/TVtechnicianforhelp.
According to FCC regulations, changes or modifications not
expressly approved by Exabyte Corporation could void your
authority to operate the equipment.
Industry Canada
notice per
ICES-003
ThisClassBdigitalapparatusmeetsallrequirementsoftheCanadian
Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations.
Cet appareil numérique de la classe B respecte toutes les exigences
du Règlement sur le matériel brouilleur du Canada.

Installation and Operation v
Contents
Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Available SCSI configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Installing the tape drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Installing the internal model in an enclosure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Installing the tabletop model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Operating the tape drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Monitoring the LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Selecting appropriate data cartridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Loading data cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Unloading data cartridges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Resetting the tape drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Cleaning the tape drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Using Tape Alert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Packing the tape drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31