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Maintenance
Using the Cleaning Cartridge
The cleaning cartridge is similar in size and shape to the regular LTO data
cartridge. Place 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
starts a cleaning operation whenever a tape recognized as a cleaning
tape is inserted. The loader cannot, by itself, recognize a cleaning tape.
It may be mislead by a wrong label on a data tape, by a data tape
inserted in a designated cleaning slot, or by the operator.
Running an Installed Cleaning Cartridge
1. Install a cleaning cartridge into 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 causes 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 barcode label indicating it is a cleaning cartridge
c. A cartridge in the slot defined as the cleaning slot
If all of the above fail, the loader displays a dialog asking the operator
for the slot from which to fetch the cleaning cartridge.
3. While the cleaning operation is on-going, the display shows the drive
status “Drive Cleaning”. After the operation completes, the cartridge is
automatically moved back to the slot from which it was fetched.
If a data tape is erroneously 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 its 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 its original slot.
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FastStor 1 Installation and User Guide