Technical data

28 U26140-J-Z146-3-76

Operation 8 mm MTC drive (7 Gbyte)

4.3 Operation

The 8 mm, 7 Gbyte MTC drive has the following controls:

Figure 14: Controls: 8 mm, 7 Gbyte MTC drive

Please note the following:

V Only use EXATAPE-approved 8 mm magnetic tape cartridges. Other

cartridges can cause problems. Information on approved 8 mm

cartridges is provided in this manual in the chapter entitled “Acces-

sories”.

I If this drive is to read a cartridge that was written in 2.3 Gbyte mode, you

must activate the write protection for the cartridge, otherwise it will be

ejected.

● The error indicator (2, amber LED) lights up when the system is powered

up and is extinguished once the self-test has been passed successfully. It

only flashes if the MTC drive has a fault or if the MTC drive requires cleaning.

I Access to the drive will be blocked if the cleaning instructions are contin-

ually ignored.

Observe the correct sequence of actions for cleaning this MTC drive as

described in the section “Cleaning the 8 mm cartridge tape drive” on

page 83.

(1) Release button

(2) amber LED (error indicator)

(3) green LED (data transfer indicator)

(4) green LED (standby indicator, tape

is being positioned or is in motion)