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Seagate DAT Drive Installation Manual 1 Introduction This installation manual contains information on how to install and operate Seagate® digital audio tape (DAT) drives. This manual covers DAT drives that support the DDS (digital data storage), DDS-DC (digital data storage data compression), DDS-2 and DDS-3 tape formats. The following table identifies the Seagate DAT drive models covered by this manual and the tape formats that they support. Format DDS Capacity 2 Gbytes 3.5-inch internal models 4320NT CTD2004H-S STD12000N DDS-DC 4* Gbytes 4324NP CTD4004H-S STD14000N DDS-2 8* Gbytes 4326NP CTD8000H-S STD18000N DDS-3 24* Gbytes STD124000N 5.25-inch 4320RT internal CTD2004R-S models STD22000N 4324RP CTD4004R-S STD24000N 4326RP CTD8000R-S STD28000N STD224000N External models 4350XT CTD2004E-S STD62000N 4324XP CTD4004E-S STD64000N 4326XP CTD8000E-S STD68000N STD624000N * Typical capacity, assuming 2:1 data compression. Native capacity is one half these values. Before you begin ! Caution. To avoid data loss, you must clean the drive heads using a DDS head-cleaning cartridge after every 25 hours of read/write operation and whenever the green, cartridge-status LED flashes during operation.

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Seagate DAT Drive Installation Manual
1
Introduction
This installation manual contains information on how to
install and operate Seagate
digital audio tape (DAT)
drives. This manual covers DAT drives that support the
DDS (digital data storage), DDS-DC (digital data storage
data compression), DDS-2 and DDS-3 tape formats.
The following table identifies the Seagate DAT drive
models covered by this manual and the tape formats that
they support.
Format
DDS
DDS-DC
DDS-2
DDS-3
Capacity
2 Gbytes
4* Gbytes
8* Gbytes
24* Gbytes
3.5-inch
internal
models
4320NT
CTD2004H-S
STD12000N
4324NP
CTD4004H-S
STD14000N
4326NP
CTD8000H-S
STD18000N
STD124000N
5.25-inch
internal
models
4320RT
CTD2004R-S
STD22000N
4324RP
CTD4004R-S
STD24000N
4326RP
CTD8000R-S
STD28000N
STD224000N
External
models
4350XT
CTD2004E-S
STD62000N
4324XP
CTD4004E-S
STD64000N
4326XP
CTD8000E-S
STD68000N
STD624000N
* Typical capacity, assuming 2:1 data compression. Native capacity is
one half these values.
Before you begin
!
Caution.
To avoid data loss, you must clean the
drive heads using a DDS head-cleaning cartridge
after every 25 hours of read/write operation and
whenever the green, cartridge-status LED flashes
during operation.