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Determine Whether Cleaning is Required
Clean the library’s drives when any of the following occurs:
The drive indicates that it needs cleaning (see Chapter 13 – Drive
Troubleshooting, beginning on page 400) by sending a message to the
storage management software.
The Drive Details screen indicates that the drive needs cleaning or
displays a C on the SCD for an LTO drive or CLEAN* on the MCD for a
TS11xx technology drive (see Figure 292 on page 468).
Note: In order for the library to monitor drive status, the drive must be
configured in a partition.
Use the following steps to use the Drives screen to determine whether a
drive requires cleaning.
1. Log into the library as a user with superuser or administrator
privileges.
2. Select Configuration > Drives or Configuration > DLM if MLM is
enabled. The Drives screen displays.
Figure 291 The Drives screen.