HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 38)

Operating the 5257 Tape Drive
5257/5257ACL Installation and User's Guide for NonStop Himalaya S-Series Tape Enclosures — 522344-001
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Super DLTtape 1 Tape Cartridge
Super DLTtape 1 Tape Cartridge
The Super DLTtape 1 tape cartridge is a half-inch cartridge containing 1,833.5 feet of
Advance Metal Particle (AMP). With a storage capacity of 110 GB native and up to 220
GB compressed, the cartridge has an archival life of more than 30 years and a durability
in excess of 1,000,000 head passes. See
Figure 4-2 .
Cartridge Write-Protect Switch
The tape cartridge has a write-protect switch to prevent accidental erasure of data.
Before loading the tape cartridge into the drive, position the write-protect switch on the
front of the cartridge:
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Left, so the cartridge is write-protected
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Right, so the cartridge is write-enabled
When the switch is moved to the left, a small orange rectangle appears that indicates
data cannot be written to the tape. The arrow (beneath the orange rectangle and over the
two lines on the write-protect switch) indicates that data cannot be written to the tape.
On the right side of the write-protect switch, an arrow over one line indicates that if the
operator slides the write-protect switch to the right, data can be written to the tape. See
Figure 4-3 .
Figure 4-2. Super DLTtape TM 1 Tape Cartridge