Seagate 240 DDS-4 manual Forcing an eject

Scorpion 240 Autoloader Installation Manual A-25

Forcing an eject

If you press the Eject button when the tape drive is busy, the tape drive first completes the current task before responding to the eject request. This way no data is lost.

However, in extreme cases, you may need to force an eject to unload a cartridge, even at the risk of losing the data on the cartridge. A forced eject should only be tried when there is no other way to recover a cartridge.

Caution. If you force an eject, the cartridge may become unreadable and may require erasing or re- initializing by the application software.

You can also force an eject when you need to eject the magazine and there is no cartridge loaded in the drive. If you force an eject when a cartridge is not loaded, the autoloader waits 35 seconds, ejects the magazine, and then resets as though it had been turned off and then turned on.

To force an eject, hold down the Eject button for at least five seconds, then release the button. When you force an eject, the following occurs:

If there is a tape in the drive, the Status Panel displays the message “UNLOAD TAPE X” (where X is the number of the magazine slot which held the tape currently in the drive). After the tape has been returned to the magazine, the display changes to “EJECTING MAGAZINE” and the magazine is ejected.

Note. Because forcing an eject can interrupt an operation, the tape drive might not write the end of data (EOD) mark on the tape before the cartridge is ejected. If the EOD mark is not written on the tape, the tape might be formatted incorrectly and the data on the tape might be lost. However, the data can usually be read up to the point where the error occurred, if a tape is correctly formatted.

If forcing an eject does not successfully remove a cartridge or the magazine, contact Seagate technical support.