Using Your Digital Data Storage (DDS) Tape Drive
Operating the DDS Tape Drive
Operating the DDS Tape Drive
This section describes how to perform tasks with your DDS tape drive.
Loading and Unloading a Data Cassette
Follow these steps to load and unload a data cassette from the DDS tape drive:
1Turn on power to the tape drive.
2Insert the data cassette into the drive, as shown in Figure 17.
Eject Button
Figure 17 | Loading and Unloading a Data Cassette |
3Push the data cassette about three quarters of the way into the drive. The drive automatically pulls the data cassette the rest of the way in. When the LEDs on the front of the drive stop flashing, the drive has loaded the data cassette.
4To remove the data cassette, press and release the eject button on the front of the drive, as shown in Figure 17. The LEDs on the drive flash on and off. Ten to twen- ty seconds later, the data cassette slides partway out of the drive. Remove the cas- sette from the drive.
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