Removing A Tape Cartridge; Mid-Tape Recovery; Cleaning The Drive Head - IBM TotalStorage Ultrium T800 Operator's Manual

Removing a Tape Cartridge

Mid-tape Recovery

Cleaning the Drive Head

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To remove a tape cartridge:
1. Ensure that the drive is powered-on.
2. Press the Unload Button. The drive rewinds the tape and partially ejects the
cartridge. The Status Light flashes green while the tape rewinds, then goes out
before the cartridge partially ejects.
3. After the cartridge partially ejects, grasp the cartridge and remove it.
Whenever you unload a tape cartridge, the drive writes any pertinent information
to the cartridge memory.
If a power cycle or reset occurs while a cartridge is loaded, the drive will slowly
rewind the tape and eject the cartridge.
Attention
When cleaning the drive head, use the IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium
Cleaning Cartridge (part number 35L2087). You may use another LTO
cleaning cartridge, but it may not meet the standards of reliability established
by IBM.
Clean the drive head whenever
the Status Light is flashing amber once per second. It is not recommended that you
clean the drive head on a periodic basis; only when the drive requests to be
cleaned.
To clean the head, insert the cleaning cartridge into the tape load compartment (see
"Front Panel of the Drive" on page 2). The drive performs the cleaning
automatically in less than two minutes then ejects the cartridge.
Note: The drive will automatically eject an expired cleaning cartridge.
The IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium Cleaning Cartridge is valid for 50 uses.
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