IBM VXA-2 - Tape Drive - VXAtape, User Manual

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Appendix A. Maintaining the tape drive
The tape drive uses cartridges with VXA technology for saving and restoring
system data. It is designed to use only VXA cartridges.
The tape drive is only backward compatible to previous VXA technology media.
Attention:
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The VXA-2 tape drive only operates with IBM recommended VXA data
cartridges. Do not attempt to use other types of cartridges, or you may damage
the tape drive.
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Only use the IBM recommended VXA cleaning cartridges to clean the tape
drive. Use of other than recommended cleaning cartridges can damage your
drive and may void the warranty.
Types of tape cartridges
Data cartridge Use the VXA data cartridge to save or restore programs or data.
Cleaning cartridge
Use the specially labeled cleaning cartridge to clean the tape drive.
For instructions about how to clean the tape drive, see “Using
cleaning cartridges” on page 3-4).
To order additional cartridges, see “Ordering tape cartridges” on page A-5.
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