About this manual – Quantum Instruments DLT 7000 User Manual
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ABOUT THIS MANUAL
“About this Manual” outlines the scope and contents of this manual. It contains information about
the intended audience, purpose of the manual, document organization, and document conventions.
AUDIENCE
This manual is written for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that are
integrating this Quantum DLT
family tape drive into a system or subsystem.
Its primary audience is the OEM technical staff that makes tape drive purchase
and configuration decisions, and system integrators that are responsible for the
SCSI interface. Additionally, the manual can be used by technically astute end-
users for installation and operation of the tape drive, although that is a
secondary audience.
PURPOSE
This manual describes the rackmount and tabletop versions of the DLT 7000
tape system. It is intended to provide the information necessary to integrate the
tape drive into a computer system or subsystem.
DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION
This product manual contains five chapters, a number of appendices of related
useful information, and an index. It includes an overview of the Small Computer
System Interface (SCSI) and detailed descriptions of the messages and SCSI
commands as used by the tape drive. The manual is organized as follows:
Chapter 1
General Description and Specifications
This chapter contains a brief description of and specifications for the
drive.