M2488 USER’S GUIDE OPERATING PROCEDURES
April 1997 CG00000-011403 REV. A 5-3
5-4.2 Tape Rewind
To rewind the tape to BOT, press
RESET
, then press
START
. REWINDNG is displayed.
5-4.3 Unload a Tape Cartridge from the M2488 Tape Drive
Unloading may be done by either of these methods.
1. The host system sends an UNLOAD command to the drive. Remove the ejected cartridge.
2. To manually unload the tape cartridge, press
RESET
. NT RDYU is displayed. Then press
UNLOAD
to unload the cartridge. Remove the ejected cartridge.
During unloading UNLOADNG is displayed. After the tape cartridge is unloaded, ✳N or ✳ is dis-
played.
5-5 MEDIUM CHANGER MAGAZINE PROCEDURES
The magazine provides automatic loading of tape cartridges in the AUTO or SYSTEM modes of the
medium changer. The following procedures describe the loading and unloading of tape cartridges in
the ACL and FACL magazines.
Figure 5-2. ACL Magazine
5-5.1 Load Tape Cartridges into an ACL Magazine
The procedure is the same for both the 5 and 10-cartridge magazine. The magazine should be
removed from the ACL for this procedure.
STEP ACTION
1 Insert tape cartridges, as shown in Figure 5-2, into the tape cartridge slots.
2 Press on the cartridge to ensure the magazine lock has engaged.
3 If file protect for all cartridges within the magazine is desired, slide the File Protect Switch to the file
protect position. This protects all cartridges without regard to individual cartridge file protect set-
tings.
Unlock button
Cartridge lock
bar
File Protect
Switch
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