Taking Care of Magazines and Cartridges

Use Precautions

•Avoid heavy vibration and dropping.

•The shutter on the face of the cartridge is opened automatically when it is inserted into the drive. Do not open the shutter by hand, as touching the tape may damage it.

•Magazines and cartridges are carefully adjusted during assembly at the factory. Please do not try to open them or take them apart.

•The write-protect tabs on magazines and cartridges prevent the tape from being written to or accidentally erased. If you do not need to write to the tape, move the magazine or cartridge write-protect tab to the write-protect position.

Label attachment position

Slide the tab toward SAVE to prevent data from being written

BLACK

Slide the tab toward REC to allow data to be written

MIRROR

Magazine write-protect tab and label attachment position.

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