Write-Protecting A Dat Cartridge; Cleaning The Tape Heads - Seagate std224000n Installationsanleitung

Seagate DAT Drive Installation Manual
thickness, and to determine whether the tape is
prerecorded or unrecorded or is a cleaning cartridge.
Other cartridge features that allow the drive to optically
sense cartridge in are Beginning-of-tape and End-of-tape.
Note. A slowly flashing green LED in conjunction
with the yellow LED indicates that a prerecorded
audio tape has been inserted in the drive.

Write-protecting a DAT cartridge

Figure 12 shows how to write-protect or write-enable a DAT
tape using the sliding write-protect tab. You can only write
data to the tape when the tab is in the closed position.
Figure 12
Write-protect tab on the DAT cartridge

Cleaning the tape heads

If excessive magnetic dust or debris collects at one or more of
the tape heads, your drive may not be able to read from or
write to tape. To avoid this situation, you must clean the tape
heads on your DAT drive in the following circumstances:
•
After the first four hours of tape movement of a new
cartridge
•
After every 25 hours of read/write operation
•
Whenever the rectangular, green cartridge-status
LED flashes during operation
Write
Enabled
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Write
Protected