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4.3 Ejecting a Magazine or a Cartridge
If the Eject button is pressed when a cartridge is loaded into the drive mechanism,
the autoloader will unload the cartridge and will eject the magazine.
NOTE:
The Eject button can be disabled by sending a host command. In this
case, pressing the Eject button will have no effect.
4.4 Forced Ejection of a Magazine or a Cartridge
NOTE:
You can lose data if you force the ejection of a tape. The tape may also
end up invalidly formatted because the EOD (End of Data) may not have
been written. Only force ejection as a last resort to recover a cartridge.
Never use it as a quick way of ejecting the cartridge.
If you press the Eject button when the drive is busy, it may take a while before the
drive will respond to the request.
However, if the drive does not respond and the magazine is not ejected after pressing
the Eject button, follow the procedure below to force ejection:
1) Hold the Eject button down for at least 5 seconds until the LCD panel displays
“ForceEject.”
2) The autoloader waits 35 seconds to give the normal ejection procedure a chance.
3) Once this time has elapsed, if there is a tape loaded in the drive, it is immediately
unthreaded and the cartridge is ejected, regardless of the operation the drive was
performing. The cartridge is then returned to its slot in the magazine, and the
magazine itself is also ejected from the autoloader. The drive is then reset, hav-
ing the same effect as cycling the power supply.
