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10 Equipment care
Your local office offers a comprehensive range of cleaning and maintenance
products for your system. The chapter “Accessories” on page 87ff lists the
various products together with their order numbers.
V Before you start cleaning work, switch off all equipment and make sure it
will not be restarted.
Make sure that no water gets inside the equipment.
Never use sprays, abrasive powder or cleaning agents which dissolve
synthetic materials.
10.1 Cleaning the CD-ROM drive
The CD-ROM is maintenance-free and does not require any special cleaning.
10.2 Cleaning cartridge tape drives
The intervals at which you need to clean the cartridge tape drives are based on
the length of time they are in use, the quality of the tapes and the environmental
conditions.
Inadequate cleaning or none at all increases the read/write error rate and
causes accelerated wear to the tape materials and the head drums, even to the
extent of particles of dirt being burnt into the head drum. If particle burn-in
occurs, the problem cannot simply be solved by using a cleaning cartridge. You
then need to send the drive to the your corresponding Service Center for
cleaning and inspection.
I Always clean the read/write head after using a new tape, because tape
abrasion may lead to read/write errors.