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Do not use letter openers, knives, box cutters, scissors, or other sharp instruments.
4. Clean the surface where the label will be placed using the smallest practical
quantity of an isopropyl alcohol-based cleaning solution. Never use any other type
of solvent!
5. Peel the backing from the special diagnostic (
DG
) label.
6. Hold the cartridge so that the write-protect switch is toward you.
7. Position the cartridge label with the bar-code characters at bottom (towards the
hub side of the cartridge) and the alphanumeric characters at the top.
8. Carefully align the label with the slight indentation provided, and press the label
into place. The label must not overlap the edges of this indentation!
9. Obtain the required number of cleaning cartridges.
Obtain the Required Number of Cleaning Cartridges
How you configure your library and how you clean your drives determine the number
of cleaning cartridges that you need and the locations where they have to reside. So
the number of cleaning cartridges required to insure that two cartridges are available
for use at all times varies.
1. If you are planning on using the library drive auto clean feature or planning to use
manual cleaning, Oracle recommends that you provide two, new, LTO universal
(
CU
) cleaning cartridges.
Having at least two cleaning tapes in the library minimizes drive down time by
insuring that a usable cleaning tape is always available when needed.
Always use new cleaning media. To the library, every newly imported cleaning
tape is new, with a usage count of zero. So if you load used cleaning tapes, you
will not have an accurate count of the number of cleanings remaining.
2. If you are planning on using host-managed drive cleaning and do not intend to
partition the library, Oracle recommends that you provide two, new, LTO
universal (
CU
) cleaning cartridges.
3. If you are planning on using host-managed drive cleaning and intend to partition
the library, Oracle recommends that you provide two, new, LTO universal (
CU
)
cleaning cartridges per partition.
A host application cannot access drives or library slots that are not in the partition
that it controls. So each partition must contain cleaning media. For example, three
partitions would require three cleaning tapes at a minimum and six for best drive
availability.
4. Now, prepare cleaning tapes.
Prepare Cleaning Tapes
1. Select the required number of cleaning tapes. Choose universal cleaning cartridges
that have been at room temperature for at least 24 hours.
Universal cleaning cartridges carry the media descriptor
CU
. Note that Oracle
strongly recommends universal cleaning tapes and requires their use with the
Drive Auto Clean feature.
2. Unwrap each new cleaning cartridge as you are ready to label it. Remove the
wrapper using the string or pull tab provided for the purpose.
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