User's Manual

Drive Operation and Maintenance

In the AUTO/LD menu, you can enable or disable automatic loading of tape

cartridges from the magazine into the tape drive.

Note. This feature can only be used to automate tape loading if application

software to support the loader operation is

not

available.

To turn on the autoload function, select “ON” and then press the Enter button. After

the magazine is inserted, tape 1 will automatically be loaded into the drive.

To turn off autoload mode, select “OFF” and then press the Enter button. In this

mode, tapes can only be loaded or unloaded via the front panel or using application

software that has autoloader support.

In the DOOR menu, you can lock the autoloader door by selecting “LOCK” and

pressing the Enter button. You can unlock it by selecting “UNLOCK” and pressing

the Enter button.

Cleaning the tape drive

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If excessive magnetic dust or debris collects at one or more of the tape heads,

your drive may not be able to read from or write to tape or may experience

excessive errors. When the cleaning threshold is exceeded, the clean LED will

remain ON (lit) continuously and the LCD display will show the message

“CLEANING REQUIRED.”

Note. A slowly flashing Clean LED may indicate that a tape is damaged or is

nearing the end of its life. If cleaning the head does not correct the flashing

LED condition, replace the cartridge.

Use the table below to determine how often to clean the autoloader.

Daily Usage (hours) Optimum cleaning frequency

(for DDS-4 tapes)

4 Twice a month

8 Weekly

12 or more Twice a week

Cleaning procedure

To clean the tape heads on your DDS-4 drive, use only a Seagate-qualified cleaning

cartridge designed for DDS-4 drives. You can purchase a Seagate cleaning cartridge,

Model 90301, on the internet at http://buytape.seagate.com.

Note. The drive cannot recognize audio DAT cleaning cartridges.

Manual cleaning

You can clean the drive manually using the following procedure:

1. Place the cleaning cartridge in a magazine slot and insert the magazine into the

autoloader.

2. Use the Select button to select the slot where you placed the cleaning cartridge.