HP Visualize J5000 - Workstation Owner's Manual page 109

Cleaning the Tape Heads
Clean the heads of your tape drive after every 25 hours of tape drive use
or if a Caution signal is displayed on the LED.
Only use HP Cleaning Cassettes (HP92283K) to clean the tape heads. Do
NOTE
not use swabs or other means of cleaning the tape heads.
Follow this procedure to clean the tape heads:
1. Insert the cleaning cassette into the drive. The tape automatically
2. Write the current date on the label on the cleaning cassette so that
Media Restrictions
If you interchange media between other DDS-format tape drives, note
that data cassettes with compressed data can only be read by tape drives
that have data-compression capabilities. This includes data cassettes
that contain both compressed and noncompressed data.
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loads the cassette and cleans the heads. At the end of the cleaning
cycle, the drive ejects the cassette.
you know how many times you have used it. Discard the cleaning
cassette after you have used it 25 times.
Using Your Digital Data Storage (DDS) Tape Drive
DDS Tape Drive and Cassette Descriptions
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