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Inserting and Ejecting Cartridges
Quick Start Guide
Ejecting Cartridges
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You can eject a cartridge from the GoVault dock by either:
• Pressing the front panel cartridge eject button (see
Power Cartridge Eject Procedure
)
• Using the Windows software eject function (see
Software Cartridge Eject Procedure
)
or your backup application software
If neither of those procedures ejects the cartridge, and you must remove the cartridge
from the dock, you could also:
• Force an emergency cartridge eject by pressing and holding the front panel cartridge
eject button (see
Emergency Cartridge Eject Procedure
)
• Use the front panel manual cartridge eject hole (see
Manual Cartridge Eject
Procedure
)
Power Cartridge Eject Procedure
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1
Verify that the font panel activity LED indicator is not flashing, which would signify
that the cartridge is being accessed.
2
Press and hold the front panel cartridge eject button for a second or longer, and watch
the activity LED to confirm that the cartridge eject operation is underway:
3
Remove the cartridge from the dock after the eject operation completes and store it in
its protective case.
Software Cartridge Eject Procedure
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Use Windows to perform the cartridge eject function as follows:
1
Verify that the font panel activity LED indicator is not flashing, which would signify
that the cartridge is being accessed.
2
Right-click the
GoVault icon in either Windows
Explorer
or the
My Computer
window
to display the GoVault menu.
Caution:
Ejecting the cartridge while it is being accessed can result in a loss of
data.
This LED indication . . .
Signifies . . .
continuous fast flashing
a normal cartridge eject operation, which can take up
to ten seconds to complete.
five flashes and then stop
that either the operating system or your backup appli-
cation software inhibited the cartridge eject operation.
In this case, see
Software Cartridge Eject Procedure
in
the following subsection, or refer to the documentation
for your backup application software.
Caution:
Ejecting the cartridge while it is being accessed can result in a loss of
data.
