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Maint Mode: Select Exit Maint Mode Note: If a cartridge is in the tape drive, it will eject the first time that you press the unload button and the drive will not be placed in maintenance mode. To continue placing the drive in maintenance mode, perform the preceding step. 4. Press the unload button once per second until 8 appears in the single-character display and the following message displays. (If you cycle past the desired code, press the unload button once per second until the code redisplays.) Maint Mode: Select Unmake FMR Tape 5. Press and hold the unload button for 3 or more seconds, then release it to select the function. Immediately after the following message displays, insert the FMR data cartridge (or the tape drive exits maintenance mode). Unmake FMR Tape Load Drv FMR Tape After you insert the FMR cartridge, the flashing C in the single-character display changes to 8 and the following message displays: Unmake FMR Tape Tape Loading = = = > followed by: Unmake FMR Tape Writing = = = > The tape drive erases the firmware on the tape and rewrites the header in the cartridge memory to change the cartridge to a valid scratch (blank) data cartridge: v If the operation is successful, the tape drive displays 0, rewinds and unloads the newly converted scratch data cartridge, and exits maintenance mode. The following message displays: Unmake FMR Tape Completed! followed by: Cartridge Unloading In Progress then: Ultrium Tape Drive Drive Empty v If the operation is not successful, an error code displays. To determine the error, locate the code in Table 6 on page 39. To clear the error, turn the power off, then on again. Appendix B. Diagnostic and Maintenance Functions 53

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Maint Mode: Select
Exit Maint Mode
Note:
If a cartridge is in the tape drive, it will eject the first time that you press
the unload button and the drive will not be placed in maintenance mode.
To continue placing the drive in maintenance mode, perform the
preceding step.
4.
Press the unload button once per second until
8
appears in the single-character
display and the following message displays. (If you cycle past the desired code,
press the unload button once per second until the code redisplays.)
Maint Mode: Select
Unmake FMR Tape
5.
Press and hold the unload button for 3 or more seconds, then release it to
select the function. Immediately after the following message displays, insert the
FMR data cartridge (or the tape drive exits maintenance mode).
Unmake FMR Tape
Load Drv FMR Tape
After you insert the FMR cartridge, the flashing
C
in the single-character display
changes to
8
and the following message displays:
Unmake FMR Tape
Tape Loading
===>
followed by:
Unmake FMR Tape
Writing
===>
The tape drive erases the firmware on the tape and rewrites the header in the
cartridge memory to change the cartridge to a valid scratch (blank) data
cartridge:
v
If the operation is successful, the tape drive displays
0
, rewinds and unloads
the newly converted scratch data cartridge, and exits maintenance mode. The
following message displays:
Unmake FMR Tape
Completed!
followed by:
Cartridge Unloading
In Progress
then:
Ultrium Tape Drive
Drive Empty
v
If the operation is not successful, an error code displays. To determine the
error, locate the code in Table 6 on page 39.
To clear the error, turn the power off, then on again.
Appendix B. Diagnostic and Maintenance Functions
53