Chapter 5 Using and Maintaining the Tape Drive

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Getting To Know Your Tape Drive

Ordering HP DDS Cassettes

Operating a DDS Tape Drive Using DDS Cassettes

Preparing Your Cassette

To allow a cassette to be written on
To protect data on a cassette
To load a cassette
To unload a cassette
To label a cassette

Interpreting Indicator Status Lights

Interpreting Status Signal Conditions

If you have a read-only tape
If you see a caution signal
If the humidity is high
If you have a fault warning

If You Need to Copy Data From the Tape Onto Disk

If you need to copy from the system disk onto a new tape

Handling and Storing Cassettes

Temperature considerations
Environmental and usage limits
To determine storage life of a DDS cassette

Cleaning Tape Heads and Choosing Your Cassettes

To clean the tape heads
To choose cassettes labeled DDS
To determine number of DDS cassettes needed

This chapter describes procedures for the tape drive that comes with your HP 3000 Series 9X8LX. A DDS tape drive stores data on cassette tapes in a format called digital data storage (DDS). To avoid loss of data and damage to your DDS drive, use only properly certified DDS cassette tapes, not DAT tapes, which are only tested for audio use. Hewlett-Packard makes no warranty for tapes other than those sold specifically for this tape drive and recommends that you use Hewlett-Packard DDS cassettes with your DDS-format drive.

The digital data storage (DDS) tape drive is mounted in the same cabinet with the computer. The tape drive is located just below the computer switches and indicators. The tape drive that comes with your computer system is the one shown in Title not available.

Figure 5-1 HP C1503A 3.5-Inch Tape Drive Front Panel

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