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Chapter 6—Configuring and Managing Partitions Partition Overview
August 2017 User Guide—Spectra T50e Library
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Configuration Requirements for a Cleaning Partition and Auto Drive Clean
Whenconfiguringacleaningpartition,keepthefollowingrequirementsin
mind:
 TheAutoDriveCleanfeaturerequiresacleaningpartitiontobe
associatedwiththestoragepartitionsthatcontainthedrivesyouwant
toclean.Thecleaningpartitioniscreatedseparatelyandthenassigned
tooneormorestoragepartitions.
 Configuringacleaningpartitionandassigningittooneormorestorage
partitionsautomaticallyenablestheAutoDriveCleanfeatureforthose
storagepartitions(seeCreatingaCleaningPartitiononpage165and
AllocateSlotsandDrivesonpage175).
 WhenaGlobalSpare driveisassociatedwithastoragepartitionthathas
AutoDriv eCleanenabled,thedriveiscleanedautomatically.Ifa
cleaningpartitionisnotassociatedwiththe storagepartition,the Global
Sparedriv emustbe cleanedmanually(s eeManuallyCleaningaDrive
onpage439).
 Theoptiontoperformamanualcleaningoperationusingacleaning
cartridgestoredinacleaningpartitionisonlyavailablefordrivesthat
areinstoragepartitionsassociatedwithacleaningpartition.
 Thecleaningcartridgesinthecleaningpartitionareinaccessibletothe
storagemanagementsoftwarerunningonthehost.
 Ifyoudonotconfigureacleaningpartitionandassociateitwiththe
storagepartitions,youmusteitheruseyourstoragemanagement
softwaretoperformthecleaningorusetheBlueScaleuserinterfaceto
importacleaningcartridgeintothestoragepartitionandmoveittothe
drivethatneedscleaning(seeManuallyCleaningaDriveonpage439).
 Ifyourstoragemanagementsoftwaresupportsautomateddrive
cleaningandyouplantousethismethodtocleanthedrivesinsteadof
thelibrary’sAutoDriveCleanfeature,youcanstoreacleaning
cartridgeinthestoragepartition.Thestoragemanagementsoftware
canthenaccessthecleaningcartridgewhenneeded.
Important
If you store cleaning cartridges in the storage partition, make sure that they are
identified as required by your storage management software to prevent the
software from attempting to use the cartridges for writing or reading data.