HP 98568A Installation Instruction page 340

HP 7979A/7980A/7980XC Tape Drives
Installation Procedure
Your HP Customer Engineer will unpack and install your tape drive for you.
The following procedure describes how to connect your tape drive to your
Series 300 computer.
Caution
" 1.
Play It Safe.
Do not attempt to operate the unit until your HP Customer
Engineer has installed the unit for you.
a. Make arrangements with your HP Customer Engineer to have your tape
drive installed.
b. Turn your computer off, if it is not already off.
c. Turn your Tape Drive on.
2. Select Your Interface.
a. Select one of the following interfaces, listed in order of preference for
optimum tape performance:
• HP 98625 Disk Interface
• Built-in HP-IB Interface
3. Set the Address.
a. Take the drive offline by pressing ONLINE. The Online indicator light
should turn off.
b. Press OPTION to enter the Option Mode.
TEST
*
appears in the display.
c. Press NEXT until ADDR
*
appears.
d. Press ENTER to select the ADDRessing Option.
e. Using NEXT or PREY, display the address desired (OFF, or 0 to 7) .
• NOTE: The tape drive is shipped with the Address set to OFF. This
setting should only be used to remove the drive from the HP-IB.
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