Tape Drive Operation

The application software automatically controls the tape drives to perform backup and restore operations. You do not need to intervene in the cartridge processing; however, you may need to perform the following tasks:

￿Monitoring the tape drive LEDs

￿Cleaning the tape drives

￿Displaying information about tape drives

￿Ejecting a cartridge manually

Note: You cannot control the tape drives from the operator panel. However, you can perform diagnostics on the tape drives across the 9-pin or 25-pin serial port. (See Chapter 7 for information about diagnostics.)

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