HP Ultrium 232e, Getting Started Manual

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cartridge (see table 3). Unlike some earlier Ultrium cleaning cartridges, the orange-colored
HP Ultrium universal cleaning cartridge is designed to work with any Ultrium drive.
table 4: cleaning cartridge compatibility
To clean the tape drive
HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drives do not require regular cleaning. An Ultrium universal
cleaning cartridge should only be used when the orange Clean LED is flashing.
1
Insert the Ultrium universal cleaning cartridge.
2
The drive will carry out its cleaning cycle and eject the cartridge on completion (which can take
up to 5 minutes). During the cleaning cycle the orange Clean LED will be on solidly and the
green Ready LED will flash.
Each HP Ultrium universal cleaning cartridge cleaning cartridge (C7978A) can be used up to
50 times with Ultrium tape drives. (The blue HP Ultrium cleaning cartridges, C7979A, can
only be used up to 15 times with any tape drive.) If the cleaning cartridge is ejected
immediately with the Tape LED on, it has expired.
Caring for cartridges
It is important that you look after your HP media and adhere to the recommended guidelines.
See “Looking after cartridges” on page 42.
Type of cartridge Recommended cartridge Other options
Cleaning HP Ultrium universal cleaning
cartridge C7978A (Orange)
HP Ultrium cleaning cartridge C7979A
(Blue). Do not use Ultrium 1 cartridges
from other manufacturers.