Maintenance; Using The Cleaning Cartridge; Running An Installed Cleaning Cartridge - Tandberg Data StorageLoader Installation And User Manual

6. Maintenance

6.1 Using the Cleaning Cartridge

The cleaning cartridge is similar in size and shape to the regular DLT/LTO data
cartridge. If your Storage Loader has a barcode reader, put a cleaning cartridge
barcode label on the cartridge before using it.
Important: This label has a six-digit ID, where the three first digits are "CLN".
A cleaning occurs whenever a cleaning cartridge is loaded into the drive. Before
cleaning, you must install the cartridge into the magazine correctly. The cleaning
cartridge may be inserted in any magazine slot.
NOTE: The only absolute authority on Cleaning Tapes is the drive. The drive will
start a cleaning operation whenever a tape recognized as a cleaning tape is
inserted. The Loader have no way of, by itself, recognizing a cleaning tape. It
may be misleaded by a wrong label on a data tape, by a data tape inserted in a
designated Cleaning Slot, or by the operator.

6.1.1 Running an Installed Cleaning Cartridge

1. Install a cleaning cartridge in a magazine slot in the loader. If a Cleaning
Slot is defined this slot should be used.
2. Select Clean Drive from the Maintenance section of the Utilities menu.
This will cause the loader to search for a cleaning cartridge in the
following sequence:
a. a cartridge reported to be a cleaning cartridge by the drive
b. a cartridge with a bar code label indicating that it is a cleaning
cartridge
c. a cartridge in the slot defined as the cleaning slot.
If all of the above fails, the loader will display a dialog asking the
operator for the slot to fetch the cleaning cartridge from.
3. While the cleaning operation is on-going, the display shows the drive
status "Drive Cleaning". When the operation is completed the cartridge is
automatically moved back to the slot where it was fetched from.
If a data tape is erronously inserted via the loader "Clean Now" menu, this is
detected by the loader when the drive identifies it as a non-cleaning tape. The
cartridge is returned to it's original slot and an error message is displayed.
Some drive families and types have means of checking if the cleaning
cartridge is expired. If an expired cleaning cartridge is inserted in such a
drive this is detected by the loader and an error message is displayed after the
tape has been returned to it's original slot.
Note: All cleaning cartridges wear out. If the drive does not support
expiration detection, the operator must keep track of cleaning cycles
manually and discard expired cartridges.
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