4-4 Operating and Cleaning the Drive
Compaq SLR Tape Drive User Guide
Handling and Storing a Cartridge
Data reliability is a function of many variables and may be improved by
suitable handling and storage. The user should follow these guidelines:
■ Do not drop cartridges.
■ Make sure that the air around the drive and the cartridge storage area is
clean.
■ Expose a cartridge to the actual operating environment for at least four
hours prior to use.
■ Do not expose a cartridge to high humidity for an extended period
unless the cartridge can be dried out for three or four days outside its
packaging box prior to use.
■ Reject worn or excessively noisy cartridges.
■ Reject cartridges which contain hard read or write errors.
■ Reject cartridges which repeatedly require large numbers of blocks per
track to be rewritten.