Front panel for use in autoloaders
A special front panel is available for autoloader applications. The front panel fits within the drive form
factor in height and width:
2. Access hole for emergency reset switch1. Access to Eject button
4. Access to datum surfaces on the front of the drive3. LEDs
The autoloader front panel has the following features:
• Simple one-piece plastic design
• Pinhole access to the eject switch on the drive for manually ejecting a cartridge. Press this for ap-
proximately ten seconds to start a “forced eject” for recovering a cartridge manually. See “Emer-
gency unload” on page 61 for details.
• Indicator LEDs provide a visible indicator of the state of health of the drive. See “Other LED pat-
terns” on page 23 for details. The LEDs are viewed through holes in the autoloader front panel;
no light pipes are present.
• Clearance for picker finger access to the right-side cartridge-handling notch
• Two square holes through the panel to provide access to a datum surface on the front of the drive
• Cartridge lead-in features to improve cartridge load and unload operations
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