Chapter 6: Performing Library Operations
Cleaning Tape Drives
170 Quantum Scalar i40 and Scalar i80 User’s Guide
• On the operator panel, the library chooses which cleaning
cartridge to use, in this order: 1) topmost I/E station slot, and
2)
one of the configured cleaning slots.
• If you have zero cleaning slots configured, you must use a cleaning
cartridge in the topmost I/E station slot. If manual cartridge
assignment is enabled, assign the cleaning cartridge to the System
partition.
• The associated partition is taken offline during the operation and
brought back online when the operation completes. You will be
asked to confirm that you want to take the partition offline.
• When the operation is complete, the library moves the cleaning
cartridge back to the I/E station slot or cleaning slot.
You can clean tape drives manually at any time using commands on the
operator panel or the Web client.
Operator Panel
1 Select Actions > Tape Drive > Manual Cleaning.
2 If more than one tape drive is in the library, use the Up and Down
buttons to select a tape drive to clean, then press Clean.
3 When the operation completes, press OK.
Web Client
1 Select Tools > Drive Operations.
2 Select Clean a tape drive and click Next.
3 If more than one partition exists, select the partition that contains
the tape drive you want to clean, and click Next.
The Clean Drive -
Partition (Mode)
screen displays, where
Partition
is the name of the partition and
Mode
is the current mode (online/
offline) of the partition. This screen contains a list of tape drives
assigned to the partition.