User`s guide

Chapter 4 Operating Your Tape Drive
Write-Protecting a DAT Cartridge
31 Quantum DAT 320 User’s Guide
Write-Protecting a DAT Cartridge
Write-protecting a DAT cartridge protects the data on the cartridge
from being changed, overwritten, or deleted. To write-protect a
cartridge, slide the write-protect tab on the front of the cartridge to the
open position (see Figure 12
). To write-enable the cartridge, slide the
write-protect tab so the hole is closed (see Figure 12
).
Caution: Write-protecting a cartridge does not protect the data on
the cartridge from bulk-erasure or degaussing. Do not bulk
erase DAT cartridges; otherwise, you will lose all of your
data on the cartridge and your data will not be
recoverable.
Figure 12 Write-protecting a
DAT Cartridge
Write enabled
Write protected