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Appendix B: Maintaining Drives
Care and Cleaning of the Exabyte 8 mm Tape Drive
Cleaning the tape drive requires use of an Exabyte
®
8 mm cleaning cartridge,
or one approved by Exabyte.
Caution: Use of cleaning materials not approved by Exabyte may void the
tape drive’s warranty.
To clean the tape drive:
1. Check to see if an 8 mm tape cartridge is present in the drive. If so,
press the unload button and remove the cartridge. Leave the drive’s
door open.
2. Insert the Exabyte or Exabyte compatible cleaning cartridge and close
the drive. The tape drive automatically runs through the 15-second
cleaning cycle. The cleaning tape is automatically ejected when the
cleaning is complete.
Note:
If the cleaning cartridge is ejected from the drive before the
15-second cleaning cycle ends, the cartridge has reached the maximum
number of cleaning cycles and should be discarded. Do not rewind the
cleaning cartridge or use it for more than its specified number of
cleaning cycles.
3. Remove the cleaning cartridge from the drive, record the date on the
label, and store it for future use.
Front Panel Lights
The 8 mm tape drive has two front panel lights: a yellow LED and a green
LED. In general, the green LED indicates whether or not the drive is ready
to accept commands, and the yellow LED indicates that the drive is busy or
an error has occurred. See Table B-2.