Cleaning Cartridges - IBM 200 GB LTO-2 User Manual

Cleaning cartridges

The LTO-2 is compatible with the IBM LTO Ultrium Cleaning Cartridge (part
number 08L9124) and the IBM Cleaning Cartridge (Ultrium LTO 2) (part number
35L2086). Use of unsupported cleaning cartridges may void your warranty or
result in billable service charges. You can view the most current support list at
www.pc.ibm.com/support and search for "cleaning cartridges."
The IBM Cleaning Cartridge functions with Ultrium-format tape drives that are
produced by compliance-verified manufacturers. The cartridge lets you buy and
use a single cleaning cartridge for all of your tape drives, rather than spend time
and money to support several different cleaning cartridges.
The IBM Cleaning Cartridge (Ultrium LTO 2) is downward-compatible with the
Ultrium Internal Tape Drive (Generation 1). To enable your Generation 1 drive to
use the cartridge, simply download and install the latest drive firmware (for
instructions, see "Updating the firmware" on page 45).
The drive itself determines when a head needs to be cleaned. It alerts you by
displaying C on the single-character display and causing the status light to become
flashing amber. To clean the head, insert the cleaning cartridge into the tape load
compartment (see Figure 17 on page 34). The tape drive performs the cleaning
automatically. When the cleaning is finished, the drive ejects the cartridge.
To remove a cleaning cartridge, see "Unload button" on page 33. The IBM Cleaning
Cartridge (Ultrium LTO 2) and the IBM LTO Ultrium Cleaning Cartridge are valid
for 50 uses (the cartridge's LTO-CM chip tracks the number of times that the
cartridge is used).
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