User`s guide

Quantum DAT 160 User’s Guide 35
Chapter 4
4Operating Your Tape Drive
This chapter describes how to operate your tape drive.
Topics in this chapter are:
• Using the Appropriate Media
• WORM Cartridges
• Loading a Cartridge
• Initializing a Blank Cartridge
• Unloading a Cartridge
• Write-Protecting a D
AT Cartridge
• Cleaning the Tape Heads
Using the Appropriate Media 4
The Quantum DAT 160 drive uses data-grade cartridges, which comply
with ANSI specifications listed in the “3.81 mm Helical-Scan Digital
Computer Tape Cartridge for Information Interchange,” ANSI X3B5/89-
156 standard.