Preventative Maintenance; Tape Drive Cleaning; Firmware Updating - HP 3000 9x9KS Service Manual

Preventative Maintenance

Tape Drive Cleaning

The cleaning cartridge part number is 9164-0392. Clean the tape drive heads at the following times:
• After every 30 hours of tape drive use.
• When the top and bottom LEDs flash rapidly.
Only use Exabyte or Exabyte certified cleaning cartridge to clean the tape heads. Do not use swabs
or other means of cleaning the tape heads.
The tape drive keeps track of tape motion and indicates cleaning is needed via the LEDs. Request Sense
information may be logged (No Check Condition is generated).

Firmware Updating

Firmware Code Load Tape Procedure:
• Shut down the operating system.
There can be no activity on the SCSI bus and no interruption of power during this procedure. Either
event can cause the device to become unusable (DEAD DRIVE) and will require the device to be
replaced.
Figure 8-45. 8 mm Cleaning Cartridge
CAUTION
NOTE
SCSI and I/O 8-81