Drive Operation And Maintenance; Loading A Cartridge; Unloading A Cartridge; Figure 16. Loading A Tape Cartridge - Seagate STD2401LW-S Product Manual

Drive operation and maintenance

Drive Operation and Maintenance

Loading a cartridge

Unloading a cartridge

Seagate DDS drives have a front-loading cartridge bay for easy operation. The drive-
bay door opens automatically when a cartridge is inserted. Figure 16 shows a
cartridge being inserted into a 3.5-inch internal drive. After you insert the cartridge,
there will be a brief delay while the drive identifies the cartridge type and state and
moves the tape to the data area.

Figure 16. Loading a tape cartridge

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Caution. Do not push the eject button while the drive-status LED is ON.
You may lose data.
Make sure that the amber drive-status LED is not lit. Then unload the cartridge by
pressing the eject button. For the location of the eject button, see Figure 17 on the
following page. After you press the eject button, the drive automatically flushes the
drive buffer to tape, rewinds the cartridge, and updates the system log before
ejecting the cartridge.
Several seconds may elapse between the time you press the eject button and the
time the cartridge is ejected. Do not power down the tape drive or the host computer
during this time.
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