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Operating your tape drive 30
Removing cartridges
CAUTION: Never try to remove a cartridge before it is fully ejected.
1. Press the Eject button on the front panel.
Figure 16 Ejecting a cartridge, external drive
2. The drive completes any task it is currently performing, winds the tape to the beginning, and
ejects the cartridge. The sequence will take about 25 seconds for a write-enabled cartridge and
10 seconds for a write-protected cartridge.
Removing power from the drive
To ensure reliable operation, do not remove power from the drive during read, write, fast-search,
load and unload activities.
1 eject button
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