User manual SONY AITI50

[. . . ] Do not defeat the safety purpose of the grounding plug. AC Power cord: (for AC mains operating unit only) The AC power cord should have appropriate safety approvals or marking for the country in which the equipment will be used. Consult your dealer or local power company. Cleaning ­ Unplug the unit from the wall outlet before cleaning or polishing it. [. . . ] If the ambient temperature should suddenly rise while the drive is turned on, wait at least one hour before turning on the drive. If you attempt to operate the drive immediately after a sudden increase in temperature, a malfunction may occur. ⷠTurning off the power to the drive while they are writing to tape may cause the tape to become unreadable. All previously negotiated parameters will be lost, whenever power to the drive is cycled. Keep the original packing materials to facilitate safe transportation of the drive. ⷠAlways remove the tape/media cartridge before moving the drive. After removing the drive from the computer, repack the drive into its original packing. The AITi200 can be used with data cartridges marked with the AIT-E Turbo, AIT-1 Turbo, AIT-2 Turbo, AIT-1, or AIT-2 logo. The AITi100 can be used with data cartridges marked with the AIT-E Turbo, AIT-1 Turbo, or AIT-1 logo. The AITi50 can be used with data cartridges marked with the AIT-E Turbo logo. Be sure to use only the cartridges designed specifically for AIT. ⷠDo not use anything but AIT cartridges with this system, as doing so can damage the AIT drive. Although commercially available 8mm videotapes resemble AIT cartridges in appearance, they have entirely different specifications and cannot be used. The AITi200, AITi100, and AITi50 conform to the Microsoft PC97 standard, which requires the internal- (naked) drive to be terminated with an external terminator. microsoft PC97 SCSI requirements SCSI peripherals must not terminate the bus. Both internal and external cable ends are instead terminated by plug-in connectors. = CLOSED/Jumper = OPEN/Jumper not installed = Don't care When switch 6 is ON, cleaning requests are enabled. When enabled, the "CLEANING REQUEST" LED on the front panel lights after every 100 hours of operation. When this LED lights, clean the drive with a head cleaning cartridge. Note To maintain the drive in optimum condition in environments affected by dust and other contaminants, we recommend keeping cleaning requests enabled. This DIP switch determines whether terminator power is supplied to the SCSI bus. Control by host can be disabled when position 8 [DC Control (2)] is ON. [. . . ] When writing data to a WORM cartridge, the data cannot be written to a portion of the tape that data has already been written. When writing data onto a WORM cartridge, it is appended after data that has already been written onto the cartridge. Accordingly, you must move to the EOD area before writing data onto the cartridge. The WORM drives support the same SCSI commands that are supported by non-WORM drives. [. . . ]