Quantum DAT 160 Betriebsanweisung

Chapter 4  Operating Your Tape Drive

Loading a Cartridge

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Loading a Cartridge

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Quantum DAT drives have a front-loading cartridge bay for easy 

operation. To load a cartridge:

Hold the cartridge so the label is facing up and the exposed media is 

facing the drive.

Gently insert the cartridge into the drive (see 

). The drive-

bay door opens automatically when a cartridge is inserted. 

After you insert the cartridge, there is a brief delay while the drive 

identifies the cartridge type and state, and moves the tape to the data 

area. Then the Ready LED turns ON.

Figure 21  Loading a Cartridge 
in an External Drive

Initializing a Blank Cartridge

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When you insert a blank cartridge into the drive for the first time, the 

drive takes from 10 to 12 seconds to determine that the tape is blank. The 

drive automatically initializes the tape as soon as it receives a SCSI 

 

command from the host computer. Initializing a blank tape takes about 30 

seconds.