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You might need to eject a tape, reset the drive, or place the drive in maintenance mode. Use the information in this topic to perform these tasks.
The drive has an eject button that enables you to perform the functions shown in the following table. The eject button is illustrated in Figure 1.
| Function | How to start the function |
|---|---|
| Reset the drive | Press and hold the Unload Button until the drive
begins the reset procedure (status light will be amber). Note: If a
tape cartridge is loaded in the drive, the drive will unload the tape.
Repeat the reset procedure after the tape is unloaded. The drive saves
a dump of the current drive state, and then reboots to allow communication.
Do not cycle power as this will erase the contents of the dump.
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| Rewind the tape into the cartridge and eject the cartridge from the tape drive | Press the Unload Button once. The status light
flashes green while the drive is rewinding and unloading. Note: During
a rewind and eject operation, the drive does not accept SCSI commands
from the server.
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| Place the tape drive in maintenance mode | Ensure that the drive is unloaded. Then, press
and hold the Unload Button for 6 seconds. The drive is in maintenance
mode when the Status Light becomes solid amber and 0 appears in the
SCD. Note:
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| Scroll through the maintenance functions | While in maintenance mode, press the Unload Button once per second to increment the display characters by one. When you reach the character of the diagnostic or maintenance function that you want (see Table 1), press and hold the Unload Button for three seconds. |
| Exit maintenance mode | Press the Unload Button once per second until 0 is displayed. Then press and hold the Unload Button for three seconds. Maintenance mode is exited when the Status Light becomes solid green and the SCD becomes blank. |
| Force a drive dump (part of the maintenance mode) | Attention: If the drive detects
a permanent error and displays an error code, it automatically forces
a drive dump (also known as a save of the firmware trace). If you
force a drive dump, the existing dump will be overwritten and data
will be lost. After you force a drive dump, do not turn off the power
to the drive or you might lose the dump data.
Choose one
of the following procedures:
If captured dump data exists, the drive places it into a dump area. |
