Instruction manual

Chapter 6
98 Exabyte 215M and 215A
Cleaning the tape drives
When a drive does require cleaning, the library displays a cleaning
message on the Status Screen. You can clean the tape drive in
several ways:
 Use the Clean Drive option (as described in this section) to
manually clean the tape drives when the library or software
notifies you to do so.
 Use the Autoclean option (see page 39) and store a cleaning
cartridge in the appropriate slot (see page 17). The Autoclean
option instructs the library to clean the tape drives
automatically when necessary and without disrupting normal
library operations.
 Set the cleaning option in your software application (if
available) so that the software monitors drive cleaning. If your
application software supports automatic cleaning, store a
cleaning cartridge in the slot specified by the application.
Note: If you use AME media with SmartClean exclusively, the
M2 tape drives automatically perform the cleaning
operation using the cleaning material in the cartridges. If
you use standard AME media, the M2 drives may require
regular cleaning with an Exabyte Mammoth Cleaning
Cartridge (see “Selecting cleaning cartridges” on page 12).
Setting up for the Clean Drive option
Before using the Clean Drive option, you must install a cleaning
cartridge in the appropriate slot and must set the drive cleaning
options.