Compaq 340622-002 manual Retensioning a Cartridge, 6Operating and Cleaning the Drive

4-6Operating and Cleaning the Drive

Retensioning a Cartridge

IMPORTANT: Use your software application to retension a cartridge.

Retensioning a cartridge consists of a complete wind/rewind operation.

The user should retension a cartridge in the following situations:

■Prior to writing to a cartridge

■After a read error has been detected. In this situation, use the following procedure:

❏Clean the drive.

❏Retension the cartridge.

❏Repeat the read operation.

❏If the read error is repeated, then the user should consider this to be a hard error. This may indicate that there is a problem with the cartridge: replace the cartridge and return to the beginning of this procedure.

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