Removing Cartridges; Removing Power From The Drive; Figure 5-4 Ejecting A Cartridge (From An External Drive) - Tandberg Data DAT 160 User Manual

Removing cartridges

Caution
1. Press the Eject button on the front panel.
1. eject button

Figure 5-4 Ejecting a cartridge (from an external drive)

2. The drive completes any task it is currently performing, winds the tape
to the beginning, and ejects the cartridge. The sequence will take about
25 seconds for a write-enabled cartridge and 10 seconds for a
write-protected cartridge.

Removing power from the drive

To ensure reliable operation, do not remove power from the drive during
read, write, fast-search, load and unload activities.
August 2009
Never try to remove a cartridge before it is fully
ejected.
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