full height tape drive

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Hi

Can I fit a full height 5.25 tape drive in and Dell poweredge SC1420 server?

I've tried looking at the online documentation but it isn't really clear.
 
Thanks for the infrmation.

We only have 2 hard drives in there.

I will have a proper look at it this weekend.
 
I have another question!

I have a dedicated SCSI card for this tape drive and a scsi cable with 6 heads on. Do I still need to use a 'scsi termintator' with this cable if it's only going to be connected to the tape drive?
 
The cable I have doesn't have a terminator built in.

Do I need a passive or active terminator?
 
HP Ultrium 960 tape drive
Adaptec 39320A scsi card
6 Head SCSI U320 U160 LVD Cable

I already have an active termiantor. Will it be ok to use?
 
I'm having problems :(

I fitted the drive & scsi card in to the server.

The problem is that the scsi card is not picking up the tape drive. The tape drive powers up fine.

I have used a cheap u320 cable from ebay which has 6 'heads'.

Head 1 is going to port A of the scsi card, head 5 to the tape drive and head 6 has an active termiantor plugged in to is.

Should I try a better cable?
 
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I would try the following...

1. Make sure HostRAID is disabled.
2. Make sure the SCSI IDs are set to something sensible (not clashing).
3. Try a different cable and/or terminator.

For reference your terminator should be marked with one of the following symbols:

DTSCSI_LVD.gif
DTSCSI_LVDSE.gif


It's also worth noting that even if a tape drive isn't listed when the card initialises it can still be visible from the OS.

1) already done
2) already done
3) new cable ordered

I noticed these 2 errors in the server report:-

PlugPlayManager 12 25/03/2009 20:04 1
The device 'Hewlett Packard LTO Ultrium-3 drive' (SCSI\Sequential&Ven_HP&Prod_Ultrium_3-SCSI&Rev_G66D\6&376048a6&0&030) disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.


hplto 15 25/03/2009 20:03 2 *
The device, \Device\Tape0, is not ready for access yet.
 
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