User manual
Table Of Contents
- 1. About This Manual
- 2. General Information
- 3. Installation
- 3.1 Performing the Installation
- Step 1. Unpacking the StorageLoader
- Step 2. Installing the StorageLoader in a Rack
- Installing the Rack Mounting Kit
- Installing the “Rail Left Assembly”
- Installing the “Rail Right Assembly”
- Mounting the StorageLoader to the Rack
- How to dismount the StorageLoader from the rack
- Step 3. Connecting Power Cable
- Step 4. Removing the Transport Lock
- Step 5. Running Power-On Selftest
- Step 6. Setting the SCSI Address
- Step 7. Connecting the SCSI Bus Cable
- Step 8. Connecting the Ethernet Connector
- Step 9. Restarting Your System
- Step 10. BCR: Labelling of cartridges
- Step 1. Unpacking the StorageLoader
- 3.1 Performing the Installation
- 4. Operation and Configuration
- 1.
- 5. Remote Management
- 6. Maintenance
- 7. Troubleshooting
- Appendix A – Specifications
- Appendix B – Spare parts/Accessories
- Appendix C – Field Replacement Units (FRUs)
Tandberg Data Maintenance
cartridge locations.
6. Maintenance
6.1 Using the Cleaning Cartridge
The cleaning cartridge is similar in size and shape to the regular LTO data cartridge.
If your Storage Loader has a barcode reader, put a cleaning cartridge barcode label
on the cartridge before using it.
Important: This label has a six-digit ID, where the three first digits are “CLN”.
A cleaning occurs whenever a cleaning cartridge is loaded into the drive. Before
cleaning, you must install the cartridge into the magazine correctly. The cleaning
cartridge may be inserted in any magazine slot.
NOTE: The only absolute authority on Cleaning Tapes is the drive. The drive will
start a cleaning operation whenever a tape recognized as a cleaning tape is
inserted. The Loader has no way to recognizing a cleaning tape by itself. It
may be mislead by a wrong label on a data tape, by a data tape inserted in a
designated Cleaning Slot, or by the operator.
6.1.1 Running an Installed Cleaning Cartridge
1. Install a cleaning cartridge in a magazine slot in the loader. If a Cleaning
Slot is defined this slot should be used.
2. Select Clean Drive from the Maintenance section of the Utilities menu.
This will cause the loader to search for a cleaning cartridge in the
following sequence:
a. a cartridge reported to be a cleaning cartridge by the drive
b. a cartridge with a bar code label indicating that it is a cleaning
cartridge
c. a cartridge in the slot defined as the cleaning slot.
If all of the above fails, the loader will display a dialog asking the
operator for the slot to fetch the cleaning cartridge from.
3. While the cleaning operation is on-going, the display shows the drive
status “Drive Cleaning”. When the operation is completed the cartridge is
automatically moved back to the slot where it was fetched from.
If a data tape is erroneously inserted via the loader “Clean Now” menu, this
is detected by the loader when the drive identifies it as a non-cleaning tape.
The cartridge is returned to its original slot and an error message is
displayed.
Some drive families and types have means of checking if the cleaning
cartridge is expired. If an expired cleaning cartridge is inserted in such a
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