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Chapter 7
7Troubleshooting Guide
This chapter provides best-practice installation guidelines for getting the
most out of your LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive and troubleshooting
information you can use to identify and resolve tape drive problems.
Topics covered in this chapter are:
• Installation Best Practices
• Troubleshooting Suggestions on page 64
Installation Best Practices
Following SCSI Best
Practices 7
Always follow SCSI best practices when installing an LTO-3 Half-Height
Tape Drive to ensure trouble-free installation and operation.
Using a Parallel SCSI
Host Bus Adapter (HBA)7
To achieve the very best performance from your parallel SCSI LTO-3
Half-Height Tape Drive and optimize your backup operations, always
attach the dive to a SCSI controller that supports the SCSI Ultra 3 LVD
interface with 160 MBytes per sec. transfer rate. Attaching the drive to a
non-LVD controller, or attaching non-LVD devices to the same bus with