Manually Cleaning A Drive - Spectra TFinity User Manual

Chapter 15 — Maintaining the Drives

Manually Cleaning a Drive

The process for loading a cleaning cartridge into the drive depends on
whether or not a cleaning partition is associated with the storage partition
containing the drive you need to clean.
Cleaning Partition Present
If a cleaning partition is present and contains a cleaning cartridge, you can
use the Clean feature on the Drives screen to manually clean a drive. See
Creating a Cleaning Partition on page 187 for information about
configuring a cleaning partition.
1. Log into the library as a user with superuser or administrator
2. If necessary, import a magazine containing one or more cleaning
3. Select Configuration > Drives or Configuration > DLM if MLM is
4. Click Clean next to the drive that needs cleaning. The library retrieves a
5. When the cleaning is complete, the library returns the cleaning
6. If the cleaning cartridge is MLM‐enabled, the cartridge health and
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privileges, or as an operator assigned to the partition.
cartridges into the cleaning partition (see Importing into a Storage or
Cleaning Partition on page 233).
enabled. The Drives screen displays.
Figure 300 The Drives screen.
cleaning cartridge from the cleaning partition and inserts it into the
drive. The Drive Cleaning Progress screen displays while the cleaning
is in progress.
cartridge to the cleaning partition and displays a status message.
Cleans Remaining are updated in the MLM database.
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