User's Guide

SCSI Interface Description Page 33
The following events will NEVER cause automatic loading:
• Ejection of a cleaning cassette after cleaning failed.
• Ejection of a data cassette by a SCSI Move Medium command.
• Ejecting the last cassette in the magazine (i.e., the cassette in the highest-
numbered occupied slot).
Magazine Ejection
The Eject button on the Autoloader can be used in two modes: regular and
emergency eject. When the button is pressed for less than five seconds, a regular
eject begins. The current SCSI command is completed and buffered data is written
to the tape. Pending commands are terminated with Not Ready / Operator Medium
Removal Request (02/5A/01) status, the cassette is returned to its slot in the
magazine, and the magazine is ejected.
If the Eject button is held for more than five seconds, emergency eject begins. All
commands are terminated within 35 seconds, the cassette in the drive is placed in
the magazine, and the magazine is ejected. If there is no cassette in the drive,
magazine ejection will occur immediately. Pending commands are terminated with
Not Ready / Operator Medium Removal Request (02/5A/01) status.
Caution: If the eject button is pressed for an emergency eject while a write
operation is in progress, the tape may not be appendable.
Stray Tape Recovery
If the magazine is forcibly removed from the loader while it is powered off, a stray
tape may be left in either the drive or the elevator. In this case, the recovery
procedure is to insert an empty magazine into the Loader. The Loader will attempt to
scan the magazine, place the stray tape into the lowest-numbered empty slot, and
eject the magazine.