User manual QUANTUM CDL432XX

[. . . ] CERTANCE Online User's Guide DAT 7 2 / D D S - 4 6 - S l o t Au t o l o a d e r i Copyright and Trademarks Copyright © 2003 by Certance LLC. Part Number 50000999 August, 2003 Certance and the Certance logo are trademarks of Certance LLC. Seagate is a trademark of Seagate Technology LLC. Other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] Write-protect or write-enable the magazine as appropriate. For more information, refer to "Write-Protecting a DAT Cartridge and Magazine" on page 33. Insert the magazine into the autoloader with the triangles facing into the autoloader bay, as shown below. Gently push the magazine into the autoloader bay until the autoloader mechanism senses the magazine and pulls it inside. Figure 10. Loading a Magazine into the Autoloader Ejecting a Cartridge or Magazine To eject the magazine from the autoloader, press the Eject button. If the drive mechanism contains a cartridge, the LCD display shows the message "EJECT?Press the Enter button, and wait for the following events to complete: 1. The tape rewinds to the beginning-of-partition (BOP) mark. If the data cartridge is not write-protected, the operating system writes the updated copy of the tape log back to the tape. The tape rewinds to the beginning-of-media (BOM) and is unthreaded. The changer places the cartridge back into the magazine. 31 Operating Your Autoloader 5. The magazine is ejected. Ejecting a Cartridge or Magazine If there is no cartridge loaded in the autoloader mechanism, the magazine is ejected without delay. Forcing an Eject If you press the Eject button when the autoloader is busy, the autoloader will complete the current task before responding to the eject request. However, in extreme cases, you may need to force an eject operation to unload a cartridge, even at the risk of losing the data on the cartridge. A forced eject should only be tried when there is no other way to recover a cartridge. CAUTION: If you force an eject, the cartridge may become unreadable and therefore require erasing or re-initialization by the application software. To force an eject, hold down the Eject button for at least five seconds, then release the button. When you force an eject, the following occurs: If there is a cartridge loaded, the Status Panel displays the message "UNLOAD TAPE X" (where X is the number of the magazine slot which held the cartridge currently in the autoloader). After the cartridge has been returned to the magazine, the display changes to "EJECTING MAGAZINE" and the magazine is ejected. NOTE: Because forcing an eject can interrupt an operation, the autoloader might not write the end of data (EOD) mark on the tape before the cartridge is ejected. If the EOD mark is not written on the tape, the cartridge might be formatted incorrectly and the data on the tape might be lost. However, the data can usually be read up to the point where the error occurred. Automatic and Manual Cartridge Loading After cartridges have been loaded into the magazine and the magazine has been inserted into the magazine bay, the autoloader can be left indefinitely for unattended write or read operations (controlled by your backup software). To load a cartridge manually, press the SELECT button repeatedly until the desired slot location is identified, then press the ENTER button. 32 Operating Your Autoloader Write-Protecting a DAT Cartridge and Magazine Write-Protecting a DAT Cartridge and Magazine Write-protecting a DAT cartridge protects the data on the cartridge from being changed, overwritten, or deleted. To write-protect a cartridge, slide the write-protect tab on the back of the cartridge to the open position. To write-enable the cartridge, slide the write-protect tab so the hole is closed. Write enabled Write enabled Write protected Write protected Figure 11. [. . . ] If the Media LED continues to flash, contact the Technical Support department. Hardware Error If the Drive LED is flashing rapidly, a hardware error has occurred. If the fault occurs immediately after powering on the drive, the POST switch (switch 4) is enabled and a POST has failed. If the front panel LEDs are flashing together, contact the Technical Support department. If the Drive LED is flashing rapidly during drive operation: 1. [. . . ]