5257/5257 ACL Installation and User's Guide for NonStop S-Series Tape Enclosures

Operating the 5257 Tape Drive

5257/5257ACL Installation and User's Guide for NonStop Himalaya S-Series Tape Enclosures—522344-001

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Super DLTtape 1 Tape Cartridge

The Super DLTtape 1 tape cartridge is a half-inch cartridge containing 1,833.5 feet of

Advance Metal Particle (AMP). With a storage capacity of 110 GB native and up to 220

GB compressed, the cartridge has an archival life of more than 30 years and a durability

in excess of 1,000,000 head passes. See Figure 4-2

Cartridge Write-Protect Switch

The tape cartridge has a write-protect switch to prevent accidental erasure of data.

Before loading the tape cartridge into the drive, position the write-protect switch on the

front of the cartridge:

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Left, so the cartridge is write-protected

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Right, so the cartridge is write-enabled

When the switch is moved to the left, a small orange rectangle appears that indicates

data cannot be written to the tape. The arrow (beneath the orange rectangle and over the

two lines on the write-protect switch) indicates that data cannot be written to the tape.

On the right side of the write-protect switch, an arrow over one line indicates that if the

operator slides the write-protect switch to the right, data can be written to the tape. See

Figure 4-3

Figure 4-2. Super DLTtape

1 Tape Cartridge