Cleaning The Tlz06 - DEC 4000 600 series Owner's Manual

Maintaining Mass Storage Media and Devices
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Cleaning the This section shows you how to perform TLZ06 head cleaning.
TLZ06 The heads are the components in a drive that physically read
and write data to and from the media (in this case, a cassette
tape).
Digital recommends that you perform the head cleaning
procedure about every 2 weeks, or after every 50 hours of drive
usage.
Under normal conditions, it should not be necessary to exceed
this cleaning schedule. If a particular data cassette causes
problems, try changing to another data cassette.
To clean the heads, use the head cleaning cassette as follows:
1. Make sure the power switch is in the on position ( | ) to apply
2. Insert the head cleaning cassette (part number TLZ04–HA)
3. With the head cleaning cassette inserted, the drive
4. In the space provided on the card enclosed with the head
5–40 Operating Mass Storage Devices
Keep tapes away from anything that contains a magnet or a
magnetic field, such as a telephone or a computer monitor.
Any tape exposed to a magnetic field can lose information.
Store tapes in a dust-free area where the relative humidity is
between 20% and 80%.
Place an identification label only in the space provided for
the label.
Never attempt to clean the heads in a manner other than
described here. Doing so may damage the drive tape
head.
power to the drive.
into the drive.
automatically executes head cleaning. The drive ejects
the head cleaning cassette after approximately 30 seconds.
cleaning cassette, place a check mark every time you use the
head cleaning cassette.
Caution