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34 Viper 200 LTO Product Manual
Parking the drive for shipping
Seagate recommends that you "park" the Viper 200 before shipping it or placing it in
an environment where it may be subject to physical shock. Parking the drive moves
the tape mechanism to the configuration that is resilient to shock. You can park the
Viper 200 using the Load/Unload button on the front of the drive, or by running
special software on your host system. In either case, the drive must be powered up
in order to enter park mode.
Parking the drive using the load/unload button
To park a drive manually, press and hold the load/unload button for 15 seconds or
more. After you release the load/unload button, the green Drive LED lights up and
the parking process begins. During the parking process, the picker arm moves into
the take-up reel and the cartridge carrier moves to the load (down) position. After
the process is complete, the Drive LED goes off, indicating that the drive has been
successfully parked.
After parking the drive, you can turn the drive off and pack it for shipping. When you
turn the drive on again, it will automatically return to normal operating mode.
If you need to unpark the drive without cycling power, press and hold the
load/unload button for more that 5 seconds but less than 15 seconds.
Parking the drive using software
You can also park a Viper 200 using the diagnostic software that communicates with
the drive through its SCSI interface. This utility program, called Seagate Tape
Diagnostics (STDIAG), is available on the Viper Resource CD and from the
technical support section of the Seagate web site, at www.seagate.com/support.
This utility software supports firmware downloading and several Viper commands,
one of which can be used to park the Viper 200.
After copying the software to your system, you can park the Viper 200 by selecting
park on the dialog box (Windows version) or by launching the following command-
line function:
diagsv park –id:x (where x is the SCSI ID of the drive)
To return the drive to normal operational mode, you can either turn the drive off and
then turn it on again, or selecting unpark on the diagnostic software dialog box
(Windows version) or by launching the following command-line function:
diagsv unpark –id:x (where x is the SCSI ID of the drive)
See the diagnostic user guide for software installation details and command syntax
for non-Windows operating systems.