HP SureStore AutoBackup Administrator's Guide - Not Orderable

Forcing Ejection
If you press the Unload button when the drive is busy, the drive may take some time to respond
because it will finish the task it is performing first. This ensures that no data is lost.
On rare occasions, however, a system or software fault may cause the tape drive not to respond
to an Unload request. In this situation, you can force ejection. There are two ways of doing this:
Press the Unload button three times within 5 minutes.
or
Hold the Unload button down for at least 15 seconds.
Following either of these actions, the drive waits until 35 seconds have passed from the time of
the first press, to give the normal eject procedure a chance to proceed. After this period, it
immediately releases the tape and ejects the cartridge, regardless of what operation it was
performing. The drive is then reset as though you had turned the power off and then on again.
Caution: You may lose data if you force ejection of a cartridge. The tape may also become
unreadable because an EOD (End of Data) mark may not be properly written.
Cartridges, Care Of
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