OPERATING THE DISK DRIVE & CARTRIDGE
Write-Protecting a Cartridge
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OptiPac 2652MD User's Manual
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Write-Protecting
a Cartridge
You may want to write-protect one or both sides of a cartridge after
removing it from your OptiPac. Write-protection prevents accidental
erasure or overwriting data on the removable cartridge.
The write-protect switch for the side which is facing up is the plastic
slide switch in the lower left corner of the cartridge.
1. To write-protect a side of the cartridge, slide the appropriate tab toward
the left edge as shown in Figure 3-3.
When you can see through the circular hole to the right of the tab, data
cannot be written to that side of the cartridge and existing data cannot
be erased from that side by ordinary means.
2. To disable write-protection, slide the tab toward the center of the
cartridge so the hole is closed.
Figure 3-3: Cartridge write-protect switch
Note:
The appearance of cartridges varies between manufacturers, but the
location of the write protect switch should always be the same.
DATA PROTECT
DATA PROTECT
Label area
(beneath metal
shutter shoulder)
Read only
(write-protected)
position
Read/write
position
Write-protect
switch
side
A
