Write-Protecting Cartridges; Cleaning Cartridges; Write Protecting A Cartridge - Freecom USB DAT-72I User Manual

Hide thumbs Also See for USB DAT-72I:

Table of Contents

Write-protecting cartridges

If you want to protect the data on a cartridge from being altered or overwritten, you can write-protect the

cartridge.

Always remove the cartridge from the tape drive before you change the write protection.

•

To write-protect a cartridge, slide the tab on the rear of the cartridge so that the recognition

hole is open.

•

To write-enable a cartridge, slide the tab back so that the hole is closed.

Write-protection will not protect your cartridges against magnets (or bulk erasers).

1. tab closed, cartridge write-enabled

2. tab open, cartridge write-protected

Figure 24 Write protecting a cartridge

HP recommends weekly cleaning of the tape drive using an HP cleaning cartridge. There are two types

of cleaning cartridges; you must use a DAT 160 cleaning cartridge with DAT 160 tape drives, see

Table 6

on page 49.

Use the correct media

Table of Contents