Quantum A-Series manual Series Data Cartridges, Super DLTtape II Data Cartridge

Chapter 3 Using Your Tape Drive

A-Series Data Cartridges

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.

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.

Write-Protect Switch

Write Protecting a SDLT 600A Data Cartridge

Figure 5 Super DLTtape II Data Cartridge

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.

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.

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