Operating instructions

Cleaning Drives 5-17
September 2007
Inserting and Ejecting Cleaning
Cartridges
Before cleaning a drive, make sure that a cleaning cartridge is
in the library inventory, know the status of any cleaning
cartridge in the library, and know how to insert or eject a
cleaning cartridge.
If your library is host partitioned, do not use the operator
panel to move a cartridge. The library does not know the
partition limits and could move a cartridge outside of the
partitioned area, making that cartridge inaccessible to the
host.
Make sure that a slot is available for the cleaning cartridge and
then manually insert it into the library using the I/E station
and operator panel.
If the Scalar 10K library controls the cleaning operation, you
cannot share a cleaning cartridge between the primary aisle
and secondary aisle in a Dual Aisle configuration. You must
insert the cleaning cartridge into the aisle containing the tape
drive that requires cleaning. For example, if you need to clean
a tape drive located in the secondary aisle, insert the cleaning
cartridge using the secondary aisle I/E station and operator
panel.
The following procedures use the operator panel to check
cleaning cartridge status, and move cleaning cartridges in and
out of the library.
Media Dialog
Use this method after you manually insert a cleaning cartridge
into the library. For further information refer to Media Dialog
on page 4-77.
Step 1 From the operator panel Main Menu, select
Setup Cleaning Media.
The Media Dialog appears. See Figure 5-12.
Figure 5-12 Media Dialog
Caution
Media Type: LTO
BC : AAAAAA
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