Handling Cartridges; Table 7. Cartridge Guidelines And Pitfalls; Table 6. Matching Drives With The Media They Support - Quantum Audio DAT72 Online Manual

Operating Your Tape Drive
TABLE 6. Matching Drives with the Media They Support
Media
DDS-2
DDS-3
DDS-4
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DDS 5 Generation

Handling Cartridges

To protect your data cartridges and the information on them, observe the guidelines and avoid the
pitfalls in Table 7 on page 41.
TABLE 7. Cartridge Guidelines and Pitfalls
Guidelines to Follow...
Use DDS cartridges at temperatures from 5° C (40°
F) to 40° C (104° F). Cartridges can be stored at
temperatures down to -40° C (-40° F).
Handle cartridges gently.
Keep cartridges in plastic cases when they are not
in use.
Apply just one label to the designated area on the
cartridge. Affixing more labels can jam the drive.
If your data is important, consider reading data off
of tapes and rewriting to new and perhaps more
modern tapes every few years.
If cartridges are exposed to temperatures or humid-
ities outside the specified operating environment,
expose them to the operating environment for a
time equal to the period that the cartridges were
exposed to the out-of-specification environment (up
to a maximum of 24 hours).
Tape Length DDS-4 Drives
120 meters
125 meters
150 meters
170 meters
Pitfalls to Avoid
Do not expose cartridges to direct sunlight, mois-
ture, excessively dry or humid places, extreme
changes in temperature or humidity, or X-rays.
Do not treat cartridges roughly or drop them.
Do not try to clean the tape guides or tape path
inside the cartridge.
Never touch the exposed tape media with your fin-
gers.
Never leave cartridges close to magnetic fields,
such as near a monitor or telephone handset.
Do not read from or write to cartridges when a tem-
perature change of 10° C per hour is occurring.
Handling Cartridges
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