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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 eject button on the drive for 20 seconds. The drive saves a dump of the current drive state, and then reboots to allow communication. Do not cycle power because this will erase the contents of the dump. |
| Rewind the tape into the cartridge and eject the cartridge from the tape drive | Press the eject button once. The status light flashes green while the tape drive is rewinding and unloading. |
| Place the tape drive in maintenance mode | Ensure that the tape drive is unloaded. Then, press the eject button three times within one second. You are in maintenance mode when the light becomes solid amber and 0 appears in the single-character display. |
| Scroll through the maintenance functions | While in maintenance mode, push the eject 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, press and hold the eject button for 3 seconds. For a list of Maintenance functions, see Table 1. |
| Exit maintenance mode | Press the eject button once per second until 0 displays. Then press and hold the eject button for 3 seconds. Maintenance mode is exited when the status light becomes solid green and the single-character display becomes blank. |
| Force a drive dump (part of the maintenance mode) | Attention: If the tape drive detects
a permanent error and displays an error code, it automatically forces
a drive dump. 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 tape drive or you might lose the
dump data.
If the tape drive is in maintenance mode (status light is solid amber), select function code 4. For a list of Maintenance functions, see Table 1. If the tape drive is in operating mode (status light is solid or flashing green), press and hold the eject button for 10 seconds. If captured dump data exists, the tape drive places the data into a dump area |
