User manual QUANTUM 458459 MOTOR DRIVE CORD

[. . . ] Other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their owners. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. Seagate Technology provides this manual "as is, " without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Seagate Technology assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, sufficiency, or usefulness of this manual, nor for any problem that might arise from the use of the information in this manual. FCC Notice This equipment generates and uses radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used properly--that is, in strict accordance with the manufacturer's instructions--may cause interference to radio communications or radio and television reception. [. . . ] Generally Travan drives are highly reliable and require little user maintenance. For normal operations cleaning once per month is quite adequate. For new cartridges, clean the head after two hours of tape movement. Thereafter the drive can be cleaned as per normal operations. 458459 MOTOR DRIVE CORD Product Manual Page 27 Chapter 4 Drive operation and maintenance You can clean the drive head by one of two methods: you can use the Seagate approved 3M DC2000 cleaning cartridge DC051111 (12947), P/N CKDC2000, which is available through Seagate Express 1-800-531-0968, or you can manually clean the drive head. To manually clean the drive head, follow these steps. Moisten a clean, lint-free swab in 90% isopropyl alcohol so that it is wet but not dripping. (Never use a dry swab. ) Hold the drive access door open and wipe the head gently using a side-to-side motion. The upright rectangle with the stripe in Figure 4-6 is the head. 2. Figure 4-6 Cleaning the drive head and capstan Capstan Tape Head 3. Use a new swab saturated with 90% isopropyl alcohol to wipe the capstan. The capstan is the flat, roller to the left of the head as shown in Figure 4-6. Rotate the capstan until its entire surface is clean. Allow the drive to dry for 3 minutes before using. 4. Troubleshooting If you experience problems after you install the drive, take the following actions to try to solve the problems. Check--set when an error has occurred. Page 32 458459 MOTOR DRIVE CORD Product Manual ATAPI Interface Error Register Chapter 5 The following layout represents the Error Register. 7 6 5 4 3 MCR 2 ABRT 1 EOM 0 ILI Sense Key [3. . 0] Bit(s) 7-4 Mnemonic Sense Key Description Set to indicate the reason for the CHECK bit being set in the Status Register. Aborted Command--Set when an ATA or ATAPI command is aborted. End Of Media--The end of the current partition was detected. On a WRITE command, unrecoverable data might be left in the buffer. Illegal Length Indication--This bit is set when an illegal length block is read. Sense Status also indicates ILI. 3 2 MCR ABRT 1 EOM 0 ILI Feature Register The following layout represents the Feature Register. 0 DMA Bit 0 Mnemonic DMA Description DMA Data Transfer--When this bit is a 1, the data transfer is in DMA mode. If the bit is 0, PIO data transfer is used. All ATAPI packet commands are transferred in PIO mode. The value in this register must be set before every ATAPI command that transfers data (including log/mode set/sense) to determine the transfer method. This register is overwritten by the drive after every command completion to present Error 458459 MOTOR DRIVE CORD Product Manual Page 33 Chapter 5 ATAPI Interface information. [. . . ] Encoding--A method whereby a group of data bits is translated into a group of recording bits. End-of-Data (EOD)--Indicates the point where the host stopped writing data to the tape. End-of-Media (EOM)--Equal to the physical end of tape. End-of-Partition (EOP)--The position at the end of the permissible recording area of a partition. [. . . ]