Installation guide

5-16 Troubleshooting and maintenance
Meridian Mail Card Option Release 9.0
• Do not open the cartridge access door or touch the tape.
• Keep the tape drive turned on when it is connected to Meridian Mail.
Cleaning the tape drive
To clean the tape drive, you need the following supplies:
• Low pressure aerosol air.
• Tape head cleaning fluid or reagent grade chemically-pure isopropyl al-
cohol.
• Tape head cleaning pads, lint-free cotton swabs, or any industry-accept-
able head-cleaning swabs, six inches or longer.
You should clean the head assembly after an initial pass with a new tape car-
tridge and after eight hours of normal use. You should clean the sensor hole
and tape cartridge cavity whenever dust is visible.
1
If there is a tape cartridge in the tape drive, remove it.
2 If the power to the tape drive is on, turn it off.
3 Push the head loading lever to the load position.
4 Carefully blow out dust from the sensor hole and tape cartridge cavity
with aerosol air.
5 Moisten a pad or swab with the head-cleaning fluid until it is saturated
but not dripping.
6 Carefully wipe the head in the direction that the tape travels. (Refer to
Figure 5-2.) Do not wipe perpendicularly or use a circular scrubbing motion.
7 Discard the used swab and repeat steps 5 and 6 with new swabs until
the swab shows no signs of dirt.
8 Use a new, dry swab to remove any remaining cleaning fluid from the
head.
9 Push the head loading lever away from the load position.
10 If there was a tape cartridge in the tape drive, replace it.
11 If the power to the tape drive was on at the start of this procedure, turn
it back on.;