Cleaning Drives; Manual Clean Without Library Cleaning Tapes - Quantum Scalar 1000 Operator's Manual

Cleaning Drives

Note
It is suggested that
cleaning tapes have
white labels and the
first three letters for
the Volser number
are CLN.
Note
A data tape may be
bad if it causes
several drives to
request cleaning.
Note
A library cleaning
tape is a tape that is
inserted into the
library using the
Insert Cleaning
Tape dialog, or was
identified to the
library with the
Setup Cleaning
Media dialog.
Manual Clean without Library Cleaning
Tapes
Note
You must supply a
cleaning tape, because
this cleaning
procedure does not
use a library cleaning
tape.
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Most tape drives use a cleaning tape for occasional cleaning.
Many cleaning tapes use a mild abrasive to clean the drives
read/write head and cleaning too frequently shortens the life
of the drive.
If a drive still requests cleaning after it has been cleaned, a
drive cleaning failure message appears on the Operator Panel.
This message does NOT interfere with library operation but
simply notifies the operator to prevent cleaning tapes from
being used excessively by a bad drive. The library will not
clean the same drive twice in succession.
The library reports a cleaning tape missing if it is removed
without using Eject Clean Tape.
If this has accidentally been done, use the Operator Panel
(Setup Cleaning View) to record the Max and Count
numbers for future use and then Reset the entry. The Clean
Tape can stay out of the library or be re-introduced using the
Insert Cleaning Tape procedure.
There are five ways to clean the drives in a Scalar 1000:
•

Manual Clean without Library Cleaning Tapes

• Manual Clean with Library Tapes on page 19
• Immediate AutoClean on page 20
• Library Delayed AutoClean on page 21
• Host Controlled Cleaning on page 22
Use this manual cleaning procedure when the library is full
and the cleaning tape space is needed for data tapes.
You can also use this cleaning procedure when there is no
library-to-drive communication and the host application is
not cleaning the drives. You can physically look at each drive
to determine if it requires cleaning, then clean the drive.
After the drive Cleaning Required indicator lights, you
should wait no more than 24 hours for a low-activity time,
then proceed as follows:
Step 1 Direct the host to remove any tape from the drive
and suspend all library activity.
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