Operating And Maintaining A Dat Drive; Loading A Cartridge - Seagate DAT Drive DDS Manuel D'installation

Seagate DAT Drive Installation Manual—English

Operating and maintaining a DAT drive

This chapter describes how to use your internal or external
Seagate DAT drive. It explains the meaning of the various
lights on the front of the drive. It also describes how to use
and care for DAT cartridges.
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Caution. To avoid data loss, you must clean the
drive heads using a DDS head-cleaning cartridge
after every 25 hours of read/write operation, or
whenever the green cartridge-status LED flashes
during operation. See page A-22 for cleaning
procedure.

Loading a cartridge

Seagate DAT drives have a front-loading cartridge bay for
easy operation. The drive-bay door opens automatically when
a cartridge is inserted. Figure 9 shows a cartridge being
inserted into a 3.5-inch internal drive. After you insert the
cartridge, there will be a brief delay while the drive identifies
the cartridge type and state and moves the tape to the data
area.
Figure 9
Loading a DAT tape cartridge (3.5-inch drive)
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