Quantum Audio Tape Drives A-Series - Manual (Page 34)

Chapter 3 Using Your Tape Drive
A-Series Data Cartridges
Quantum A-Series Tape Drives User’s Guide 18
A-Series Data Cartridges
By following general handling procedures, conducting careful visual
inspections of data cartridges on a regular, ongoing basis, and being
certain to store data cartridges within their environmental limits, you will
greatly reduce any chance that you will experience problems with your
data cartridges or cause damage to your A-Series tape drive.
Please refer to
Appendix B for further information about data cartridges.
Write-Protect Switch 3
Each data cartridge has a write-protect switch that you can use to prevent
accidental erasure of data. Before inserting the data cartridge into the tape
drive, position the write-protect switch on the front of the data cartridge
according to the type of operations you expect to perform.
Write Protecting a SDLT
600A Data Cartridge
3
The Super DLTtape II data cartridge is dark blue and has a keying feature
that prevents insertion into the older generation DLT tape drives, as
shown in figure 5 .
Figure 5 Super DLTtape II Data
Cartridge
Note: Always remove the data cartridge from the drive prior to
powering down the drive. This ensures that the file system
stored on the tape is consistent and that the tape in the tape
path is not damaged when the unit is powered up.