User's Guide

Chapter 4 Operating Your Tape Drive
Cleaning the Tape Heads
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Figure 19 Write-protecting
a DDS Cartridge
Cleaning the Tape Heads 4
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 or flashes.
• If the Media LED flashes when the drive is operating.
Caution: Write-protecting a cartridge does not protect the data on
the cartridge from bulk-erasure or degaussing. Do not
bulk erase DDS cartridges; otherwise, you will lose all of
your data on the cartridge and your data will not be
recoverable.
Write protected
Write enabled
Write enabled
Write protected