5.5.3
Drive Fillers
If an RLS does not have all of its tape drives installed, drive fillers must be installed
in the empty drive bays. The appropriate amount of drive fillers for empty drive bays
were included with the RLS if it was ordered without a full compliment of tape drives.
Please contact Qualstar Technical Support if additional drive fillers are required.
To install a drive filler in an empty drive bay, simply slide it into the drive bay and
secure it with the two thumbscrew fasteners.
5.6
Media Handling Precautions
5.6.1
General Precautions
Note that tape cartridges are fragile and can be damaged if mishandled. Observing
the following guidelines will help to prevent damage to tape drives and/or tapes
cartridges.
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When outside of a library, always keep tape cartridges in either their protective
plastic case or a covered magazine.
•
When carrying more than one LTO cartridge, always orient the cartridges the same
way and stack them together. Their cases are designed to interlock to each other to
prevent them from slipping apart.
•
Never stack the tape cartridges more than five high.
•
Before a cartridge is inserted into a tape drive, it should be allowed to acclimate to
the operating environment for at least 24 hours. This may be done in the same
room as the library or inside the library. Inserting a very hot or cold cartridge into a
tape drive could damage both the cartridge and the drive.
•
The ideal archival environment for storing tape cartridges is at a temperature
range of 64°-79° Fahrenheit and a relative humidity of 40 to 60 percent.
•
Make sure to stand each cartridge vertically, when placing them in archival (long
term) storage. This means that magazines with cartridges should be stored in a
horizontal orientation.
•
Avoid placing tape cartridges near any source of high intensity magnetic fields,
such as monitors or electric motors.
•
Never apply adhesive labels to the tape cartridge anywhere except in the recess
provided on the front side (same side as the write-enable/protect switch). Labels
applied elsewhere could cause the cartridge to become jammed inside a tape drive
or magazine.
•
Do not apply more than one label at a time in the recess provided on the front side.
If a new label is to be applied, completely remove the old one first.
•
Only use ink when writing on labels. Lead pencils, grease pencils, etc. can produce
debris that can cause data errors.
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