User`s guide

Chapter 4 Operating Your Tape Drive
Cleaning the Tape Heads
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Cleaning the Tape Heads
If excessive dust or debris collects at the tape heads, your drive may not
be able to read from or write to tape. To avoid this situation, clean the
drive’s tape heads:
• After every 50 hours of operation
• If the Clean LED goes
ON
To clean tape heads, use a Quantum-qualified DAT 320 cleaning
cartridge. Quantum offers a cleaning cartridge, Model MR-D7CQN-xx,
that can be ordered from www.quantum.com
.
Note: Be sure to use a DAT 320 data cartridge and a DAT 320
cleaning cartridge. Also, avoid liquids, swabs, and other
methods other than those recommended in this section.
To clean the tape heads:
1 Insert a Quantum-qualified DAT 320 cleaning cartridge into the
drive. The drive loads and runs the cleaning cartridge for about 60
seconds.
Note: If the cleaning cartridge runs for less than 60 seconds
and the Clean LED is flashing, the cartridge has expired.
Replace the cleaning cartridge with a new one and
repeat step 1.
2 When the cleaning cartridge finishes cleaning the heads, the drive
ejects the cartridge automatically.
3 Remove the cleaning cartridge from the drive and store the
cartridge in a safe place.
Most cleaning cartridges are good for roughly 50 cleaning cycles. When
the cleaning cartridge is used up, the Clean LED will flash rapidly and
the cleaning cartridge should be replaced.
Observe the following guidelines when cleaning tape heads: