Installation guide

Preface

This guide provides the information you will need to install and conﬁgure SF20

DECarray cabinet, and SF-series storage enclosures and magazine tape ISEs

in the DECarray cabinet. The guide is intended for Digital Services and for

personnel qualiﬁed to service the DECarray cabinet. The information in this

guide is organized as follows:

• Chapter 1 contains a description of and speciﬁcations for the DECarray

cabinet and SF-series storage enclosures.

• Chapter 2 contains site preparation information for a DECarray cabinet.

• Chapter 3 describes how to unpack a DECarray cabinet and where to place

it with a system.

• Chapter 4 describes how to install the DECarray cabinet in a single-system

and a DSSI VAXcluster conﬁguration.

• Chapter 5 describes how to install SF3x series storage enclosures in a

DECarray cabinet.

• Chapter 6 describes how to install SF7x series storage enclosures in a

DECarray cabinet.

• Chapter 8 describes how to install TF-series magazine tape ISEs in a

DECarray cabinet.

• Chapter 9 contains instructions for troubleshooting the installed DECarray

cabinet, and the SF-series storage enclosure and magazine tape ISE

upgrades.

• The appendixes provide information for referring to how the DECarray cab-

inet can be cabled for single-system and DSSI VAXcluster conﬁgurations,

the procedures to add SF72-UK and SF73-UK upgrade kits to an SF7x-HK

storage enclosure, the procedure to convert a single-system conﬁguration

to a DSSI VAXcluster conﬁguration, and the procedure for installing a

DECarray cabinet with VAX 4000 (all models) systems.