Cleaning Tape Drives - Sun Microsystems SPARCstorage Library Installation And User Manual

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Tape Drive LEDs:
See Chapter 2.

Cleaning Tape Drives

Tape drives need to be cleaned once every 30 motion hours.
Note – When cleaning the tape drive, use a Sun approved 8mm cleaning
cartridge.
Each drive keeps track of tape motion hours internally. When 30 tape motion
hours have elapsed, the following activities occur:
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The top and bottom LEDs on the tape drive flash slowly. Depending on the
SCSI bus activity, the middle LED may also be flashing.
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The tape drive informs the library that it needs cleaning. The library
displays "CTS needs cleaning" on the LCD main screen.
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Indicators or flags in the tape drive are set. The application program can
look at the indicators and determine if cleaning is required.
You can clean a tape drive two ways:
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By installing a cleaning cartridge in the fixed cartridge slot and using the
Clean Drive 1 or Clean Drive 2 options.
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By opening the front door and manually inserting a cleaning cartridge into
the tape drive.
SPARCstorage Library Installation and User's Guide—June 1995