User`s guide

Chapter 4 Operation
Performing an Emergency Reset and Cartridge Eject
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Each time you use the LTO cleaning cartridge, the cleaning media
advances to a new, unused section. After approximately 50 cleanings, all
of the media will be used up and the LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive:
• Turns on the green Activity LED
• Fast flashes the amber Status LED
• Ejects the LTO cleaning cartridge
Always discard used-up LTO cleaning cartridges.
Performing an Emergency Reset and Cartridge Eject
If the LTO-3 Half-Height Tape Drive stops communicating with the host
computer, use the following procedure to reset the drive and eject a
cartridge (if necessary).
Note: If the amber Status LED comes on continuously within 24
hours after a cleaning cycle, perform the cleaning procedure
again. If, after three cleaning cycles in a 72-hour period, the
amber Status LED comes on again, contact Quantum Technical
Support.
Caution: When you perform an emergency reset and cartridge
eject, any data in the drive or host buffers will not be
written to the tape and the tape record may not be
correctly terminated with an end-of-data mark. If the end-
of-data mark is not written to the tape, you will not be
able to append any data to that tape unless you overwrite
the existing data on the tape.