User's Manual

Using Your Digital Data Storage (DDS) Tape Drive

Operating the DDS Tape Drive

This section describes how to perform tasks with your DDS tape drive.

Loading and Unloading a Data Cassette

Follow these steps to load and unload a data cassette from the DDS tape

drive:

1 Insert the data cassette into the drive, as shown in Figure 21.

Figure 21 Loading and Unloading a Data Cassette

2 Push the data cassette about three quarters of the way into the drive. The drive

automatically pulls the data cassette the rest of the way in. When the LEDs on the

front of the drive stop ﬂashing, the drive has loaded the data cassette.

3 To remove the data cassette, press and release the eject button on the front of the

drive, as shown in Figure 21. The LEDs on the drive ﬂash on and off. Ten to twen-

ty seconds later, the data cassette slides partway out of the drive. Remove the cas-

sette from the drive.

Eject Button