User`s guide

Chapter 4 Operating Your Tape Drive
Write-Protecting a DDS Cartridge
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2 Press the Eject button on the front panel of the drive to unload the
cartridge (see figure 14
). The drive automatically flushes the drive
buffer to tape, rewinds the cartridge, updates the system log, and
ejects the cartridge. This may take up to three minutes. Do not power-
down the tape drive or host computer during this time.
Figure 14 Eject
Button on Front Panel
of Drive
Write-Protecting a DDS Cartridge 4
Write-protecting a DDS cartridge protects the data on the cartridge from
being changed, overwritten, or deleted. To write-protect a cartridge, slide
the write-protect tab on the back of the cartridge to the open position (see
Note: The backup software may issue a command to the drive
that prevents the Eject button from ejecting the tape. If the
tape does not eject, try ejecting it using your backup
software commands.