Parking The Drive For Shipping - Certance LTO 1 User Manual

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Parking the Drive for Shipping

Certance recommends that you "park" LTO-1 and LTO-2 drives before shipping them or placing them
in an environment where they may be subject to physical shock. Parking the drives moves the tape
mechanism to the configuration that is resilient to shock. You can park the LTO-1 and LTO-2 drives
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 to enter park mode.
Using the Load/Unload Button to Park the Drive
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. Dur-
ing the parking process, the picker arm moves into the take-up reel.
When the process is complete, the Drive LED goes off, indicating that the drive has been successfully
parked.
After parking the drive, you can turn off the drive and pack it for shipping. When you turn the drive
on again, it automatically returns 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.
Using Software to Park the Drive
You can also park LTO-1 and LTO-2 drives using special software that communicates with the drive
through the drive's SCSI interface. This utility program TapeRx is available on the Tape Resource CD
and from the technical support section of the Certance Web site, at http://support.certance.com.
This utility software supports many commands, one of which can be used to park the LTO-1 and LTO-
2 drives.

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