
Chapter 4 Operating Your Tape Drive
Handling Cartridges
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Table 4 Cartridge Guidelines
and Pitfalls
Guidelines to Follow... Pitfalls to Avoid
Use DAT cartridges at
temperatures from 5° C (40° F) to
40° C (113° F). Cartridges can be
stored at temperatures down to -
40° C (-40° F).
Do not expose cartridges to
direct sunlight, moisture,
excessively dry or humid places,
extreme changes in temperature
or humidity, or X-rays.
Handle cartridges gently. Do not treat cartridges roughly or
drop them.
Keep cartridges in plastic cases
when they are not in use.
Do not try to clean the tape
guides or tape path inside the
cartridge.
Apply just one label to the
designated area on the cartridge.
Affixing more labels can jam the
drive.
Never touch the exposed tape
media with your fingers.
If your data is important,
consider reading data off of
tapes and rewriting to new and
perhaps more modern tapes
every few years.
Never leave cartridges close to
magnetic fields, such as near a
monitor or telephone handset.
If cartridges are exposed to
temperatures or humidities
outside the specified operating
environment, expose them to the
operating environment for a time
equal to the period that the
cartridges were exposed to the
out-of-specification environment
(up to a maximum of 24 hours).
Do not read from or write to
cartridges when a temperature
change of 10° C per hour is
occurring.
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