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Chapter 6 Caring For Your Tape Drive
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To remove a tape cartridge from the drive:
1. Wait until the operation light on the front of your tape drive stops
blinking and your backup software indicates that it is all right to remove
the tape cartridge. Do not remove a tape cartridge during an operation.
See the Caution above.
2. Grasp the tape cartridge firmly and pull it straight out of the drive.
Write-Protecting a Tape Cartridge
If you write-protect a tape cartridge, the tape drive can only read data from the
tape, not write to it. Use this setting to protect data on the tape cartridge from
being erased or overwritten, for example, when you are restoring files from tape.
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To write-protect a cartridge, slide the write-protect tab on the cartridge to
the right.
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To remove write-protection from a cartridge, slide the write-protect tab to
the left.
See Figure 6-2 to see how the write-protect tabs appear on the cartridge.
Write-protect tab
in locked position
Figure 6-2. Write-protecting a Cartridge