Installation Procedure - HP 98568A Installation Instruction

HP 9144A Tape Drive
Installation Procedure
The following procedure describes how to connect your HP 9144A to your
Series 300 computer. Before you do this, however, refer to the manual(s) that
came with the tape drive to:
• Unpack the drive .
• Check the voltage select switch.
And now, the installation procedure ...
1. Play It Safe.
Turn your computer and tape drive off, if they are not already off.
2. Select Your Interface.
a. HP- UX Recommendations:
• If you selected an HP 98625 Disk Interface for your system disk.s), use
the built-in HP-IB Interface for your HP 9144A tape drive.
• If you selected the built-in HP-IB interface for your system disk(s),
use an HP 98624A HP-IB Interface for your HP 9144A tape drive (if
available) .
• Otherwise, use your built-in HP-IB interface for both disk and tape
drives.
b. BASIC and Pascal Workstation Recommendations:
• Connect the tape drive to either the HP 98625 Disk Interface or to the
built-in HP-IB interface.
3. Set the Address.
a. On the back of the tape drive, find the set of four switches labeled
"ADDRESS."
b. Set the HP-IB address:
• If there is only one other disk or tape drive (besides this HP 9144A)
already connected to the interface, set the "ADDRESS" switches to 2
as shown in Figure 6-18, unless address 2 has already been used.
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