User`s guide

14 Sun StorEdge DLT8000 Tape Drive Installation and User’s Guide • February 2001
3. Remove the cartridge.
4. Push the handle closed.
▼ To Clean the Drive Head
Caution – Use only a DLT Type III cleaning tape cartridge to clean the tape drive.
The Use Cleaning Tape LED lights when the tape drive needs cleaning.
1. Load the cleaning tape cartridge into the tape drive (see “To Load a Tape Cartridge
Into the Tape Drive”).
Note – If the Use Cleaning Tape LED lights after you load the cleaning tape
cartridge, cleaning has not been done because the cleaning tape cartridge is expired.
Replace the cleaning tape cartridge. A cleaning tape usually lasts about 20 cleanings.
2. Wait for the cleaning process to complete.
The Tape In Use LED stops blinking and the Operate Handle LED lights.
3. Unload the cleaning tape cartridge (see “To Unload a Tape Cartridge From the
Tape Drive”).
4. Record the date of the cleaning on the cartridge label.
Note – If a data cartridge causes the Use Cleaning Tape LED to blink or the Use
Cleaning Tape LED still lights after you clean the drive head, then the data cartridge
may be damaged. Try another data tape cartridge. If the second tape cartridge
works, then back up your original tape cartridge onto another tape cartridge.
Discard the old tape cartridge.
Selecting Density
You can select the density at which the tape cartridge will record data by using the
Select button on the front panel or by using a software command. In either case, the
new density does not take effect until a write from “beginning of tape” (BOT) is
executed. Until then, the original density will be used.