User manual SONY SDX-700V

[. . . ] 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 you attempt to operate the drives immediately after a sudden increase in temperature, malfunctions may occur. ⷠTurning off the power to the drives while they are writing to tape may cause the tape to become unreadable. All previously negotiated parameters will be lost, whenever power to the drives is cycled. Keep the original packing materials to facilitate safe transportation of the drives. ⷠAlways remove the tape/media cartridge before moving the drives. After removing the drives from the computer, repack them into their original packing. SDX-700V series can be used with data cartridges marked with the AIT-1, AIT-2 or AIT-3 logo. Note Be sure to use only data cartridges designed specifically for AIT (do not use 8 mm video cartridges) as this may damage the drives. The SDX-700V series drives 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 In Disaster Recovery Mode, an SDX-700 series drive enters the DR Standby Mode 15 seconds after you insert a write-protected tape into the drive, and all the drive LED blink. If you restart the drive while the LED are blinking, it starts as a CD-ROM device. For details about the Disaster Recovery Mode, refer to the instruction manual that came with the application software you are using. Emulation Mode returns the following in the Product Identification field of Inquiry of a SDX-700V series drive. Control by host can be disabled when position 8 [DC Control (2)] is ON. Terminator Power Control DIP switch This DIP switch determines whether terminator power is supplied to the SCSI bus. 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. Align the dust cover's hinge clips (one on each side) with the pins of the drive bezel. [. . . ] When writing data to a WORM cartridge, the data can not be written to a portion of the tape that 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. However, if an attempt is made to write to a portion of a tape where data has already been written, the following error information is returned: "Sense Key = 07, ASC = 27h, ASCQ = 00: Persistent Write Protect" or "Sense Key=03, ASC=27h, ASCQ=04: Write Position Error. [. . . ]