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. Other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Certance reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. [. . . ] Do not apply labels over other labels. CAUTION: Do not place any labels on the autoloader magazine, since this may cause the tape mechanism to jam. Loading a Cartridge Use only approved DAT cartridges in the autoloader. Make sure that the cartridges are write-protected or write enabled, as necessary. For more information, refer to "Write-Protecting a DAT Cartridge and Magazine" on page 33. Hold the magazine so that the slot numbers on the side of the magazine are right-side-up. Insert cartridges with the cartridge door facing the magazine slot, as shown in the following figure. Figure 9. Loading a Cartridge into the Autoloader Magazine 30 Operating Your Autoloader Ejecting a Cartridge or Magazine Loading a Magazine into the Autoloader CAUTION: Do not load a magazine if all the LED's are flashing; this indicates that the autoloader is performing a Power On Self Test (POST). 1. 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. If the data cartridge is not write-protected, the operating system writes the updated copy of the tape log back to the tape. 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. [. . . ] If the Device Manager shows the drive, check the documentation that came with your backup program to determine whether the program needs a particular driver to be installed. If the Device Manager does not list the drive, the drive may not be installed or configured properly. Check your drive installation and configuration. · · Write Error If the Media LED is flashing, a write error has occurred. Use a Certance-qualified DDS cleaning cartridge to clean the tape heads (see "Cleaning the Tape Path" on page 34). [. . . ]