Chapter 3 Operation
Performing an Emergency Cartridge Eject
LTO-4 Half-Height Tape Drive User’s Guide
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Performing an Emergency Cartridge Eject
If the LTO-4 Half-Height Tape Drive stops communicating with the host
computer, use the following procedure eject a cartridge (if necessary).
To perform an emergency cartridge eject, hold down the Eject button
between 5 to 15 seconds, and then release it. The tape drive firmware
ignores all outstanding SCSI commands and ejects the tape.
If the emergency cartridge eject procedure does not eject the cartridge
from the drive, see
Drive Does Not Eject the Tape Cartridge
on page 48.
Caution:
When you perform an emergency cartridge eject, any data
in the drive or host buffers will not be written to the tape
and the tape record may not be correctly terminated with
an end-of-data mark. If the end-of-data mark is not
written to the tape, you will not be able to append any
data to that tape unless you overwrite the existing data on
the tape.
