Manually Cleaning Tape Drives - Quantum Scalar i500 User Manual

Manually Cleaning Tape
Drives
Scalar i500 User's Guide
Details on exporting cleaning cartridges include:
• You must have access to the library's I/E station and the operator
panel to export cleaning cartridges.
• You can only export cartridges if empty I/E station slots are
available.
You need to provide the following information in the
screens to export cleaning media:
Media
• — The tape cartridges that you want to export.
Media
The screen includes information about the number of empty I/E station
slots in the library. The number of cleaning cartridges you can export is
limited to the number of empty I/E station slots.
You can filter the list of media by entering all or part of a
Note:
barcode in the
with wildcards. You can also sort the list by clicking on
columns with bold headings. For example, selecting the
Location
The paths to open the appropriate screens are as follows:
• From the web client, select
• From the operator panel, select
For step-by-step procedures, see the library's online Help. To access the
online Help system, click the Help icon at the top right of the web client
or operator panel user interface.
The
Clean Drive
drives.
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Be sure to unload the tape drive before attempting to clean it.
Note:
If the tape drive is loaded with a cartridge, it will not available
for this operation.
If you have at least one cleaning slot configured (see
Cleaning Slots
choose to use a cleaning tape from either a configured cleaning slot or the
text box. Use an asterisk (*) to search
Search
column heading sorts the list by location coordinates.
Operations > Cleaning Media > Export
Operations > Export Cleaning Media
screens allow administrative users to manually clean tape
on page 71), and you are using the web client, you can
Chapter 4 Running Your Library
About Cleaning Tape Drives
Export Cleaning
Configuring
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