Protective Case Inspection
(All Media Types)
When To Perform a Visual Inspection
How To Perform a Visual Inspection
• Best practices: Each time a tape is loaded or changed.
• When a tape cartridge is dropped or subjected to a hard physical shock.
• When a shipment of tapes show any signs of shipping damage.
• If the drive becomes inoperable after loading a tape.
• If a drive error occurs, inspect the current and previous cartridge used in that drive.
• Go through all inspection steps in Group 1, 2 and 3 (see following pages).
• If issues are found in Group 1 only and no issues found in Groups 2 or 3 then use cartridge with caution.
• Monitor software log for media degradation.
• Consider copying the data onto a new cartridge and retiring the old cartridge.
• If any issues are found in Group 2 or 3, then retire the media and use a different cartridge.
Case
Inspect the protective case
for cracks, chips, distortion,
or other signs of damage.
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Inspection
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