Manually Cleaning A Tape Drive - Spectra Logic T-Series Spectra T200 User Manual

Manually Cleaning a Tape Drive

The process for loading a cleaning cartridge into the tape drive depends on
whether or not a cleaning partition is associated with the partition
containing the drive you need to clean.
No Cleaning Partition Present
Before you can begin the cleaning process, a cleaning cartridge must be
available in the partition containing the drive to be cleaned. If you do not
permanently store a cleaning cartridge in the storage pool for each
partition, you must import one when drive cleaning is required. You need
a magazine containing a cleaning cartridge and either of the following:
Use the following steps to clean the tape drive.
1. If you keep a cleaning cartridge stored in the storage pool for the
2. If necessary, import the TeraPack with the cleaning cartridge into either
3. Move the cleaning cartridge from the magazine to the drive needing
4. Move the cleaning cartridge from the tape drive back to the magazine
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A TeraPack magazine with one or more empty slots in the storage pool
of the partition with the drive that needs cleaning.
An empty chamber in either the entry/exit pool or the storage pool of
the partition with the drive that needs cleaning.
partition, use its bar code label information to determine its location, as
described in Locate the Desired Media on page
the entry/exit pool or the storage pool for the partition containing the
drive that needs cleaning, as described in
Pool or Cleaning Partition on page
When the TAP door opens, insert the magazine containing the cleaning
cartridge, making sure that it is correctly oriented (see
page 96).
Note: If an empty chamber is not available in either the entry/exit pool
or the storage pool, exchange the magazine containing the
cleaning cartridge for a magazine in one of those pools (see
Exchanging Media on page
you can exchange the magazines again.
cleaning, as described in
The tape drive automatically performs the cleaning, which takes
approximately one minute, and ejects the cartridge when finished.
from which it came.
Importing into the Entry/Exit
93.
107). When the cleaning is complete,
Move the Media on page
T200, T380, and T680 Libraries
Cleaning a Tape Drive
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Figure 45 on
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