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Chapter 7  Fibre Channel Interface

Practical Considerations

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Practical Considerations

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This section describes considerations specific to the DLT-S4 Fibre 

Channel tape drive.

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Fibre Channel cables are “hot swappable,” which means that you may 

connect and disconnect them with unit power turned on. Therefore, 

unlike some other systems, the tape drive and computer may remain 

powered on while you connect the DLT-S4 tape drive to the host 

computer.

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DLT-S4 Fibre Channel tape drives use slightly more power than SCSI-

configured tape drives. See the DLT-S4 Product Specification (81-81279-xx).

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When the tape drive completes the power cycle process (including POST) 

and the port is initialized, the Fibre Channel port is enabled and will 

attempt to initialize on the attached Fibre Channel topology.
When the tape drive completes the power cycle process (tape drive 

turned on and POST complete), the device is on-line and capable of tape 

drive operations. 
See 

 on page 113 for information about POST.

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If the tape drive is unable to obtain an address (fabric assigned, 

previously assigned, hard assigned, or soft assigned), it goes into a non-

participating mode and immediately implicitly logs out all logged-in 

ports.
If the tape drive experiences a power-on reset, or recognizes an 

LIP (AL_PD, AL_PS), it does not retain a previously acquired address to 

use during the next loop initialization.