Unloading A Cartridge; Initializing A Blank Dat Cartridge - Seagate std224000n Installationsanleitung

Seagate DAT Drive Installation Manual
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Loading a DAT tape cartridge (3.5-inch drive)

Unloading a cartridge

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Caution. Do not push the eject button while the
Drive Status LED is ON. You may lose data.
Make sure that the drive-status light is not lit. Then unload
the cartridge by pressing the eject button. For the location of
the eject button, see Figure 9 on page 14 or Figure 10 on page
15. After you press the eject button, the drive automatically
flushes the drive buffer to tape, updates the system log and
rewinds the cartridge before ejecting it.
Note. Several seconds may elapse between the time
you press the eject button and the time the cartridge
is ejected. Do not power down the tape drive or the
host computer during this time.

Initializing a blank DAT cartridge

When you insert a blank cartridge into the drive for the
first time, the drive takes about 10 to 12 seconds to
determine that the tape is blank. The drive will
automatically initialize the tape the next time it receives a
write command from the host computer. Initializing a
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