User's Manual

Drive operation and maintenance
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Drive Operation and Maintenance
Loading a Cartridge
Seagate DAT drives have a front-loading cartridge bay for easy operation. The drive-
bay door opens automatically when a cartridge is inserted. Figure 16 shows a
cartridge being inserted into a 3.5-inch internal drive. 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.
Figure 16. Loading a Tape Cartridge
Unloading a Cartridge
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Caution.
To ensure the integrity of your backups and restores, do not
push the eject button while the drive-status light-emitting diode (LED) is
ON. See Figure 17 for the location of drive LEDs.
Make sure that the amber drive-status LED is not lit. Then unload the cartridge by
pressing the eject button. For the location of the eject button, see Figure 17. After
you press the eject button, the drive automatically flushes the drive buffer to tape,
rewinds the cartridge, and updates the system log before ejecting the cartridge.
Up to three minutes may elapse between the time you press the eject button and the
time the cartridge is ejected. Do not power down the tape drive or the host computer
during this time.
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