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Your package contains the following items:
v The tape drive
v Media kit containing:
– One cleaning cartridge
– One test tape
v Specific hardware for attaching the drive to your specific system, as detailed on the parts
listing provided with your drive.
Eject button functions on the tape drive (FC 5746)
You might need to eject a tape, reset the drive, or place the drive in maintenance mode. Use the
information in this topic to perform these tasks.
The drive has an eject button that enables you to perform the functions shown in the following table. The
eject button is illustrated in Figure 1 on page 12.
Table 7. Eject button functions on the tape drive
Function
Reset the drive
Rewind the tape into the cartridge and eject the cartridge
from the tape drive
Place the tape drive in maintenance mode
Scroll through the maintenance functions
Exit maintenance mode
Force a drive dump (part of the maintenance mode)
How to start the function
Press and hold the eject button on the drive for 20
seconds. The drive saves a dump of the current drive
state, and then reboots to allow communication. Do not
cycle power because this will erase the contents of the
dump.
Press the eject button once. The status light flashes green
while the tape drive is rewinding and unloading.
Ensure that the tape drive is unloaded. Then, press the
eject button three times within one second. You are in
maintenance mode when the light becomes solid amber
and 0 appears in the single-character display.
While in maintenance mode, push the eject button once
per second to increment the display characters by one.
When you reach the character of the diagnostic or
maintenance function that you want, press and hold the
eject button for 3 seconds. For a list of Maintenance
functions, see Table 10 on page 17.
Press the eject button once per second until 0 displays.
Then press and hold the eject button for 3 seconds.
Maintenance mode is exited when the status light
becomes solid green and the single-character display
becomes blank.
Attention: If the tape drive detects a permanent error
and displays an error code, it automatically forces a
drive dump. If you force a drive dump, the existing
dump will be overwritten and data will be lost. After
you force a drive dump, do not turn off the power to the
tape drive or you might lose the dump data.
If the tape drive is in maintenance mode (status light is
solid amber), select function code 4. For a list of
Maintenance functions, see Table 10 on page 17.
If the tape drive is in operating mode (status light is
solid or flashing green), press and hold the eject button
for 10 seconds. If captured dump data exists, the tape
drive places the data into a dump area
Chapter 2. Managing tape drives
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