Caring For Your Tape Drive; Care Of The Tape Drive; Choosing Tapes For Your Tape Drive - HP D6030A - NetServer - E50 Getting Started

6 Caring For Your Tape Drive

This chapter provides information about caring for your HP SureStore T4 tape
drive and its cartridge tapes.

Care of the Tape Drive

The HP SureStore T4 tape drive is simple to care for. No routine cleaning or
maintenance is required.
CAUTION
Do not clean the tape drive's read-write head. Do not degauss
or demagnetize the tape drive's read-write head. This will
damage the tape drive.

Choosing Tapes for Your Tape Drive

Your HP SureStore T4 tape drive is compatible with several types of tape
cartridge:
High-capacity Travan 4 (TR-4) mini-cartridge (QIC-3095 format), one of
which is supplied with the tape drive. This is the normal tape cartridge
you should use for your backup data.
HP Colorado 5 GB mini-cartridges, which have a lower capacity than
TR-4 cartridges.
QIC-Wide mini-cartridges (QIC-3095 format). This is an older tape
format that allows your T4 to maintain compatibility with previously
written tapes.
Various brands of tape cartridges will work with your tape drive. To ensure the
highest level of performance, HP brand tapes, which have been tested for
compatibility with your drive, are recommended. The following table lists tapes
that are known to be compatible with your HP SureStore T4 tape drive. See the
HP NetServer Support web site for updates to this list.
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