How do I extract Dell Power Vault Autoloader 124T tapes manually?

We have a Dell Power Vault Autoloader 124T. It's dead. Probably a power supply issue. We are ready to retire it anyway.





1. Any tips on how we can manually extract the tapes that are inside of it? We'd appreciate your detailed, step by step directions.





2. Assuming it doesn't have much worth, how would you suggest that we sell it or recycle it?|||Since you said tapes (plural), I'm assuming you mean the side cartridges, which are probably locked unless you unlocked it with your software before it died. If you're just going to get rid of it, you can pop the casing off until you find the locking mechanism, which will allow you to slide the cartridges out safely, without damaging the product or the tapes inside. The cartridges easily slide in and out and are held in by a simple locking feature. It's going to take some time to do.





If you have a tape in the drive itself, you're in a world of trouble. When a tape is loaded into the drive, the film is wrapped around the spindles, so unless you are amazingly good with this task, you're kind of screwed. This happened to us with SDLT tapes. Never had this problem with LTO3 tapes, but I can easily assume it's the same.