User's Guide

Chapter 2 Basic Library Operations
Inserting Tape Cartridges into the Load Port
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If Auto Load is enabled, the library automatically moves the
cartridges to available bins.
Inserting LTO Tape
Cartridges
2
To insert an LTO cartridge:
1
The two load port magazines used when LTO tape drives are
present in the library are stationary and built into the load port.
They accommodate up to 8 LTO or DLT tape cartridges. The
magazines employ no loading mechanism (unlike the DLT
removeable magazines) and tape cartridges are simply placed
into the bins with the barcodes facing out and the write-protect
switch on the left (see figure 20
).
Figure 20 LTO Tape
Cartridge Load Port
Barcode
Stationary
magazine
Loadport
assembly
Write-protect
switch