How to clean the tape heads on an Ultrium drive?
User must use only Ultrium cleaning cartridges to clean the tape heads.
Do not use swabs or other means of cleaning the heads. The cleaning cartridge uses a special tape to clean the tape heads.
An Ultrium universal cleaning cartridge can be used up to 50 times with HP Ultrium 960 and 460 tape drives and up to 15 times with HP Ultrium 230 and 215 tape drives.
Follow the steps below:
Insert an Ultrium universal cleaning cartridge into the drive. The tape drive automatically loads the cartridge and cleans the heads.
During the cleaning cycle the orange LED'Clean' (Ultrium 960 and 460) or ‘Use Cleaning Cartridge’ (Ultrium 230 and 215) will be ON and the Green LED‘Ready’ will flash.
At the end of the cleaning cycle, the drive ejects the cartridge. The cleaning cycle can take up to 5 minutes.
Remove the cleaning cartridge from the drive.
The drive's TapeAlert feature will send a message to your backup application when the tape heads need cleaning.
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