Cleaning Procedure - Seagate Scorpion 96 Installation Manual

DAT Autoloader Installation Manual
To avoid this situation, you must clean the tape heads on your
DAT drive in the following circumstances:
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Cleaning procedure

To clean the tape heads on your DAT drive, use only a Seagate-
qualified DDS DAT cleaning cartridge designed for DAT drives.
Seagate offers a cleaning cartridge, Model 90301, that you can
order from Seagate Express (five per package). The drive
cannot recognize audio DAT cleaning cartridges.
Insert the cleaning cartridge into the drive. The drive should
automatically detect that the cartridge is a cleaning cartridge.
Then the drive will load and run the cartridge for about 30
seconds. When cleaning is complete, the drive will eject the
cartridge.
Note. A slowly flashing green LED may indicate that a
tape is damaged or is nearing the end of its life. If
cleaning the head does not correct the flashing LED
condition, replace the cartridge. The slowly flashing LED
does not indicate a loss of data, nor does it indicate SCSI
problems. If the "Cassette" LED flashes rapidly, the drive
could not write the tape correctly and the WRITE
operation failed.
After the first four hours of tape movement of a new
cartridge
After every 25 hours of read/write operation
Whenever the rectangular, green cartridge-status LED
flashes during operation
Note. Each time the cleaning cartridge is loaded, a new,
unused portion of cleaning tape is advanced over the entire
tape path. The drive does not rewind a cleaning cartridge.
After about 30 cleaning cycles, the entire tape is used up ,
and you must purchase a new cleaning cartridge.
If you insert a cleaning tape that has been used up, the
drive ejects the tape without completing a cleaning
operation. This process takes just under 25 seconds.
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