Cleaning The Tape Heads - Seagate Scorpion 40 Installation Manual

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Cleaning the tape heads

When to clean the tape heads
If excessive dust or debris from the tape media collects at one or
more of the tape heads, your drive may not be able to read from
or write to tape. To avoid this situation, you must clean the tape
heads on your Scorpion 40 in the following circumstances:
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Note: If cleaning the head does not correct a flashing LED
How to clean the tape heads
To clean the tape heads on your drive, use only a Seagate-
qualified DDS cleaning cartridge. Seagate offers a cleaning
cartridge, part number 25883-001, available from Seagate
Express at 1-800-656-8419.
Note: Do not use an audio DAT cleaning cartridge. The drive
After you insert the cleaning cartridge, the drive detects that
the cartridge is a cleaning cartridge, then loads and runs the
cartridge for about 30 seconds. When cleaning is complete,
the drive ejects the cartridge.
Note: Each time the cleaning cartridge is loaded, a new,
after every 25 hours of read/write operation using DDS-1
or DDS-2 tapes or every 50 hours of operation using
DDS-3 or DDS-4 tapes
if the Clean LED lights up or flashes, or
if the Media LED flashes during drive operation.
condition, try using a new data cartridge.
cannot recognize it.
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. In this case, the Clean LED will flash
rapidly and the cleaning cartridge should be replaced.
Scorpion 40 Installation Manual, Rev. A