Determine The Number Of Cleaning Cartridges; Apply A Label To A Tape Cartridge; Correct Label Orientation - StorageTek SL150 Manual

Determine the Number of Cleaning Cartridges

Determine the Number of Cleaning Cartridges
At least two cleaning cartridges should be available for drive cleaning. The total
number of cleaning cartridges in the library and where they need to reside depends on
your drive cleaning strategy and partitioning configuration:
If using library auto-cleaning or manual cleaning: Oracle recommends that you
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provide two, new, LTO universal (CU) cleaning cartridges into reserved system
slots. The partitioning configuration does not affect this number.
If using host-managed cleaning: the number of cleaning cartridges required
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depends on your partitioning configuration.
For a non-partitioned library, Oracle recommends that you provide two, new, LTO
universal (CU) cleaning cartridges placed into storage slots.
For a partitioned library, Oracle recommends that you provide two, new, LTO
universal (CU) cleaning cartridges per partition. A host application cannot access
drives or library slots that are not in the partition that it controls. So each partition
must contain cleaning media. For example, three partitions would require three
cleaning tapes at a minimum and six for best drive availability

Apply a Label to a Tape Cartridge

When handling cartridges, follow all precautions in
1.
Cartridges"
Clean the surface where the label will be placed using a small amount of isopropyl
2.
alcohol-based cleaning solution. Never use any other type of solvent.
Orient the label with the barcode side down. Orient the cartridge so that the
3.
write-protect switch is to your left (see figure below).
Peel the backing off the label. Apply the label within the slight indentation. The
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label must not overlap the edges of this indentation.
Figure 6–1 Correct Label Orientation
1 - Write Protect Switch
2 - Cartridge label correctly applied (barcode side down/character side up)
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Always use new cleaning cartridges. To the library, every
Note:
newly imported cleaning cartridge is new, with a usage count of zero.
So if you load used cleaning cartridges, you will not have an accurate
count of the number of remaining cleanings.
on page 6-1.
"Guidelines for Handling Tape