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Scorpion 240 Autoloader Installation Manual A-25
Forcing an eject
If you press the Eject button when the tape drive is busy, the
tape drive first completes the current task before responding
to the eject request. This way no data is lost.
However, in extreme cases, you may need to force an eject to
unload a cartridge, even at the risk of losing the data on the
cartridge. A forced eject should
only
be tried when there is no
other way to recover a cartridge.
Caution. If you force an eject, the cartridge may become
unreadable and may require erasing or re-
initializing by the application software.
You can also force an eject when you need to eject the
magazine and there is no cartridge loaded in the drive. If you
force an eject when a cartridge is not loaded, the autoloader
waits 35 seconds, ejects the magazine, and then resets as
though it had been turned off and then turned on.
To force an eject, hold down the Eject button for at least five
seconds, then release the button. When you force an eject,
the following occurs:
If there is a tape in the drive, the Status Panel displays the
message “UNLOAD TAPE X” (where X is the number of the
magazine slot which held the tape currently in the drive). After
the tape has been returned to the magazine, the display
changes to “EJECTING MAGAZINE” and the magazine is
ejected.
Note. Because forcing an eject can interrupt an operation,
the tape drive might not write the end of data (EOD)
mark on the tape before the cartridge is ejected. If the
EOD mark is not written on the tape, the tape might be
formatted incorrectly and the data on the tape might be
lost. However, the data can usually be read up to the
point where the error occurred, if a tape is correctly
formatted.
If forcing an eject does not successfully remove a cartridge or
the magazine, contact Seagate technical support.