Preliminary
3-5
September 21, 1999
BENCHMARK
T A P E
S Y S T E M S
1. Press the Eject button or use your backup software to eject the cartridge. The In Use
LED blinks while the drive rewinds the tape.
2. When the drive has rewound the tape, it ejects the cartridge.
Figure 3-3: Ejecting a DLTtape Cartridge
3. Remove the cartridge from the drive.
4. Return the cartridge to its storage case to prolong cartridge life.
3.3.3 Cartridge Write-Protect Switch
All DLTtape cartridges have a write-protect switch to prevent accidental erasure of data.
Before loading a DLTtape cartridge into your DLT1 drive, make sure the write-protect switch
on the front of the cartridge is positioned as desired.
Figure 3-4: DLTtape Cartridge Write-Protect Switch
Slide the switch
to the left
to write-protect the cartridge. A small orange rectangle is visible,
indicating that the cartridge is write-protected.
Slide the switch
to the right
to allow your DLT1 drive to write data to the cartridge.
