Cleaning The Tape Path; Table 22. Cleaning The Tape Path - Certance CP3100 D2D2T User Manual

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Using the Integrated Tape Drive

Cleaning the Tape Path

If excessive magnetic dust or debris collects at one or more of the tape heads, the DAT drive may not

be able to read from or write to tape, or may experience a number of recoverable soft errors. When

a threshold for recoverable soft errors is exceeded, the CP 3100 issues an Attention, the Attention

LED blinks amber slowly, and a message to clean the physical tape drive appears.

Table 22 on page 90 lists the frequency that the tape path should be cleaned. To clean the tape

path, use an approved DAT cleaning cartridge, such as Certance Model CDMCL, and refer to the

instructions that come with the cartridge.

NOTE: For more information about the integrated tape drive contained in the CP 3100 desktop

and rack-mount units, see the Certance DAT72/DDS-4 Online User's Guide on the Certance

Resource CD or at www.certance.com/support. For non-Certance DAT tape drives, refer to the

manufacturer's documentation.

Daily Usage (Hours)

0-4

4-8

8-12 or more

Optimum Cleaning Frequency

Three times per month

Weekly

Twice a week

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