User`s guide

Chapter 4 Operating Your Tape Drive
Unloading a Cartridge
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Unloading a Cartridge
To unload a cartridge:
1 Be sure the Drive LED is
OFF.
Caution: To ensure integrity of your backups and restores, do not
press the Eject button when the Drive LED is ON.
2 Press the
Eject button on the front panel of the drive to unload the
cartridge (see Figure 11
). The drive automatically flushes the drive
buffer to tape, rewinds the cartridge, updates the system log, and
ejects the cartridge. This may take up to three minutes. Do not
power-down the tape drive or host computer during this time
Note: The backup software may issue a command to the drive that
prevents the
Eject button from ejecting the tape. If the tape
does not eject, try ejecting it using your backup software
commands.
Figure 11 Eject Button on
Front Panel of External Drive