Quantum Audio A-Series Manuel D’Utilisation

Chapter 3  Using Your Tape Drive

A-Series Data Cartridges

Quantum A-Series Tape Drives User’s Guide

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A-Series Data Cartridges

By following general handling procedures, conducting careful visual 

inspections of data cartridges on a regular, ongoing basis, and being 

certain to store data cartridges within their environmental limits, you will 

greatly reduce any chance that you will experience problems with your 

data cartridges or cause damage to your A-Series tape drive.
Please refer to 

 for further information about data cartridges.

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Each data cartridge has a write-protect switch that you can use to prevent 

accidental erasure of data. Before inserting the data cartridge into the tape 

drive, position the write-protect switch on the front of the data cartridge 

according to the type of operations you expect to perform.

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The Super DLTtape II data cartridge is dark blue and has a keying feature 

that prevents insertion into the older generation DLT tape drives, as 

shown in 

Figure 5  Super DLTtape II Data 
Cartridge

Always remove the data cartridge from the drive prior to 

powering down the drive. This ensures that the file system 

stored on the tape is consistent and that the tape in the tape 

path is not damaged when the unit is powered up.