Installation guide

Maintaining Mass Storage Media and Devices
• Do not touch the surface of a disc. Handle a disc by its edges.
• Wipe a disc with a compact disc cleaner when dust or
fingerprints contaminate its surface.
• Never manually open the caddy shutter, shown in
Figure 5–15, or touch the disc. The caddy shutter opens
automatically when you insert the caddy into the drive.
Figure 5–15 Caddy Shutter
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Handling and
Storing Tapes
Cartridge tapes, used by all tape drives, store information on
the magnetic surface of the tape. Do not touch these exposed
magnetic surfaces.
If the tape leader is not in the correct position, do not try to fix
it. Use a new cartridge instead.
Handle and store tape cartridges as follows:
• Keep tapes dry.
• Avoid dropping or banging the cartridge, which can displace
the drive leader and make the tape unusable.
• Store tapes in moderate temperatures of between 10°C and
40°C (50° and 104°F).
• If a tape cartridge has been exposed to extreme heat or cold,
allow the tape to stabilize at room temerature for the same
amount of time it was exposed—up to 24 hours.
• Keep tapes out of direct sunlight and away from sources of
heat.
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