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Viper 200 Installation Manual
Caution.
To perform an emergency reset, hold down the load/unload
button for five seconds, and then release it. If there is no tape
in the drive, the drive firmware reboots the drive and begins
the power-on self-test sequence.
If there is a tape in the drive when you perform an emergency
reset, the drive ignores all outstanding SCSI commands and
ejects the tape. The drive then reboots and begins the power-
on self-test sequence.
If the procedures above do not cause the cartridge to be
ejected from the drive, it may be necessary to remove the
cartridge manually, as described below.
Manual cartridge removal
The remainder of this section provides instructions for
manually removing a data cartridge from an internal Viper
drive. This should only be done if the cartridge cannot be
removed by pushing the buttons on the front of the drive or by
issuing commands from a host device. This should only be
necessary if you must remove a data cartridge prior to
returning the drive to Seagate.
Caution:
Before you start
1. Issue all possible commands and run diagnostics prior to
2. Turn off all power to the drive.
3. Unplug all connectors to the drive.
When you perform an emergency cartridge eject,
any data currently in the drive or host's buffers
will not be written to the tape and the tape record
may not be correctly terminated with an End of
Data mark. If the End of Data mark is not written
to the tape, it will be impossible to append any
data to that tape, unless you overwrite the
existing data on the tape.
After following these procedures, you must return
the drive to Seagate for repair. Do not attempt to
use the drive until after it has been serviced.
using the procedures in this manual.
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