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60 Working With Cartridges and Barcodes
Do not insert damaged cartridges into tape drives
Do not touch the tape or tape leader
Caution
Do not degauss cartridges that you intend to reuse.
Write-Protecting Cartridges
All cartridges have a write-protect (write-inhibit) switch to prevent accidental erasure or overwriting of
data.
Before loading a cartridge into the library, make sure that the write-protect switch is positioned
correctly (either on or off).
The switch is located on the left side of the cartridge front. Slide the red or orange write-protect switch
to the right so that the padlock shows in the closed position.
Barcode Requirements
Cartridges must have an external barcode label that is machine and operator-readable. A barcode
must use only uppercase letters A to Z and/or numeric values 0–9. The library supports Code 39 (3 of
9) type barcodes.
For LTO media barcodes, the library supports six characters for the barcode plus a two-character
media type identifier.
Caution
You must use StorageLibrary T40 specific barcode labels supported by Tandberg
Data to ensure reliable functionality of the barcode reader.
Installing Barcode Labels
Each cartridge in the library must have an external label that is operator and machine readable to
identify the barcode.
All barcode labels must be applied to the front of a cartridge. Peel off the label and place it on the
cartridge.
Verify that the label is oriented so that the numbers appear above the barcode. The cartridge cannot
have any stickers or labels attached to the top or bottom because if the labels come loose, they can
get caught in the tape drives or become unreadable by the scanner.
Caution
Do not place a barcode label on top or bottom of a cartridge. Doing so can cause
inventory operations to fail.