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Use the correct media
Data cartridges
Ultrium tape drives use Ultrium tape cartridges. These are single-reel cartridges that match
your drive's format and are optimized for high capacity, throughput and reliability.
Compatible media can be recognized by the Ultrium logo, which is the same as the logo on
the front of your drive. Do not use other format cartridges in your tape drive and do not use
Ultrium cartridges in other format tape drives.
Write-protecting cartridges
If you want to protect the data on a cartridge from being altered or overwritten, you can write-
protect the cartridge.
Always remove the cartridge from the tape drive before you change the write protection.
• To write-protect a cartridge, slide the red tab by the label area on the rear face of the
cartridge to close the hole. Note the padlock on the tab that indicates that the cartridge is
protected.
• To write-enable a cartridge, slide the red tab back so that the hole is open before loading
it into the drive. Figure 8 illustrates the location of the write-protect tab.
Write-protection will not prevent a cartridge being erased by bulk-erasure or degaussing. Do
not bulk erase Ultrium format cartridges. This will destroy pre-recorded servo information and
make the cartridge unusable.
Cleaning cartridges
You must use Ultrium cleaning cartridges with Ultrium tape drives, as other cleaning cartridges
will not load and run. We recommend the Ultrium Universal cartridge. Unlike some earlier
Generation 1 Ultrium cleaning cartridges, the orange colored Ultrium Universal cleaning
cartridge is designed to work with any Ultrium compliant drive. Do not use other format
cartridges in your tape drive and do not use Ultrium cartridges in other format tape drives.
To clean the tape drive:
A cleaning cartridge is supplied with each tape drive and should only be used when the
orange Clean LED is flashing.
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Insert the cleaning cartridge.
2
The drive will carry out its cleaning cycle and eject the cartridge on completion (which can take
up to 5 minutes). During the cleaning cycle the orange Clean LED will be on solidly and the
green Ready LED will flash.
Each cleaning cartridge can be used up to 15 times. If the cleaning cartridge is ejected
immediately with the Tape Error LED on, it has expired.
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