User`s guide

Chapter 4 Operating Your Tape Drive
Loading a Cartridge
29 Quantum DAT 320 User’s Guide
Loading a Cartridge
Quantum DAT drives have a front-loading cartridge bay for easy
operation. To load a cartridge:
1 Hold the cartridge so the label is facing up and the cartridge door is
facing the drive.
2 Gently insert the cartridge into the drive (see Figure 10
). The drive-
bay door opens automatically when a cartridge is inserted.
After you insert the cartridge, there is a brief delay while the drive
identifies the cartridge type and state, and moves the tape to the data
area. Then the Ready LED turns ON.
Figure 10 Loading a Cartridge
in an External Drive
Initializing a Blank Cartridge
When you insert a blank cartridge into the drive for the first time, the
drive takes from 10 to 12 seconds to determine that the tape is blank.
The drive automatically initializes the tape as soon as it receives a SCSI
WRITE command from the host computer. Initializing a blank tape takes
about 30 seconds.