
Chapter 4 Operating Your Tape Drive
Initializing a Blank Cartridge
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Figure 17 Loading a Cartridge
Initializing a Blank Cartridge 4
When you insert a blank cartridge into the drive for the first time, the
drive takes from 10 to 12 seconds to determine that the tape is blank. The
drive automatically initializes the tape as soon as it receives a SCSI
“Write” command from the host computer. Initializing a blank tape takes
about 30 seconds.
Unloading a Cartridge 4
To unload a cartridge:
1 Be sure the Drive LED is OFF.
Caution: To ensure integrity of your backups and restores, do
not press the
Eject button when the Drive LED is ON.
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