User guide

Seagate Travan 40GB User Guide 20
Cleaning the tape drive
mechanism
Under typical conditions, the tape heads should
be cleaned after every twenty-four hours of use.
However, in adverse conditions or when error
rates become high, the tape drive recording
mechanism should be cleaned after every eight
hours of use.
Use only a dry-process cleaning-cartridge to
clean this drive. When you insert a cleaning
cartridge in the drive, the drive recognizes the
cleaning cartridge and automatically starts the
cleaning process. After about 10 seconds, when
the cleaning process is complete, the drive LED
stops flashing, and the cleaning cartridge is
ejected. Travan cleaning cartridges (model
number STTMCL) are available on the web at
http://buytape.seagate.com or by calling 1-800-
626-6637 (North American customers only).
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