Attempting To Load The Magazine With A Cassette Already In Drive; If You Are Using Sequential Access Mode; If You Are Using Random Access Mode - ADIC DAT 160 Installation And Operating Manual

In the sequential access mode, if you press UNLOAD before the
DAT Autochanger has finished loading the magazine, the
robotics will finish mapping and checking the cassettes and then
move the magazine to the unload position (the far left) without
inserting a cassette into the drive.
In random access mode, if the DAT Autochanger has not
finished loading the magazine, pressing UNLOAD will have no
effect.
Attempting to Load the Magazine with a
Cassette Already in Drive
If you attempt to load the magazine while there is a cassette in the drive, the DAT
Autochanger will attempt to load the cassette. Upon finding there is a cassette in the
drive, the DAT Autochanger will stop the load and flash an error message (see
section titled DAT Autochanger Warning Lights in Chapter 5 for a description of
error messages). In this case, proceed as follows:

If you are using sequential access mode

p Press and hold LOAD and UNLOAD simultaneously until all three front panel
lights flash Then proceed as noted below for random access mode.

If you are using random access mode

p Press UNLOAD
p Press LOAD and UNLOAD simultaneously. This will move the gripper arm
away from the drive.
p Open the DAT Autochanger door. Press the eject button on the DAT drive. It
may take 30 seconds or more for the drive to eject the cassette.
Note
This will unload the magazine.
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