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Chapter 2 Basic Library Operations
Operating the Load Port
Operating the Load Port
Removing/
Installing a Tape
Cartridge
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Magazine
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After pressing the Load Port button on the GUI, the library will
release the lock on the load port (you will hear an audible 'click').
The GUI displays "Wait Open Load Port." Pull on the load port's
handle. The load port pulls outward about an inch to its unlocked
position which allows its interior drum to be rotated 180
magazine loading or unloading.
Opening or closing the load port door presents
Warning:
mechanical hazards. Use both hands to pull or push
the load port finger grip and use the top and bottom
surfaces of the load port drum to keep fingers out of
load port openings when rotating the load port drum
(see
figure
After loading or unloading the magazines, rotate the load port
o
back 180
and push the load port handle to lock the load port into
position.
The mixed media load port used with LTO tape
Note:
cartidges has two stationary 4-cartridge magazines built
into the load port, unlike the two removable 6-cartridge
magazines used with DLT and SDLT tape cartridges. If
the library contains both DLT and LTO tape drives, the
stationary magazines are used in the load port.
To remove a DLT/SDLT magazine from the load port, press up on
the metal tab at the upper right corner of the load port bay. Rotate
the magazine handle from the top of the magazine toward you and
pull the magazine from the loadport. Reverse this procedure to
install a magazine (see
Quantum|ATL P3000 Series User's Guide
19).
figure 6
on page 13).
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