
Quantum ATL M2500 Library User’s Guide Addendum—Prism FC420 Bridge Option
Document 6473031-01, Ver. 1, Rel. 1
August 2002
8 Setting SCSI IDs
DLT8000 Drive Cabling 0
A single FC420 Fibre bridge installed in an ATL M2500 library with
DLT8000 tape drives can manage up to four drives per SCSI port.
Figure 5
shows a typical cabling configuration, with the SCSI
controller and three drives on one bus and three drives on the other
bus.
Figure 5 Typical Cabling
with DLT8000 Drives
Setting SCSI IDs 0
Use the information in table 1
to set the SCSI device addressing (SCSI
IDs) for the library.
Table 1 SCSI ID Settings
Note: To increase the bandwidth available to each drive, install
additional FC420 Fibre bridges and use the cabling
configuration shown in figure 3
or in figure 4.
Device SCSI ID Device SCSI ID
SCSI Controller 0 Drive 3 4
Drive 01Drive 45
Drive 12Drive 56
Drive 2 3
Drive 2 Drive 1
Drive 4 Drive 3
Drive 6 Drive 5
Slot for FC420
Slot for FC420
FC420
SCSI controller
SCSI
SCSI
SCSI
SCSI
SCSI
SCSI
SCSI
SAN
Fibre
M2500
Auxiliary
electronics
module
Primary
electronics
module
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