Spectra T50e - Creating a Cleaning Partition

Chapter 6—Configuring and Managing Partitions Creating a Cleaning Partition
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CREATING A CLEANING PARTITION
IfyouknowthatyouwanttouseAutoDriveCleanwithastorage
partition,itiseasiertoconfigurethecleaningpartitionbeforeyou
configurethestoragepartitions.Ifyouselecttocreatethestorage
partitionsbeforeyoucreatethecleaningpartition,AutoDriveCleanisnot
enableduntilyoumodifythestoragepartitionstoassignacleaning
partitiontothem.
Notes:  Ifyouwanttoconfigurethestoragepartitionsfirst,skipto
CreatingaStoragePartitiononpage169.
 Iftheexistingstoragepartitionsusealloftheslotsinthe
library,modifyastoragepartitiontomakeslotsavailablefor
useinthecleaningpartition(seeModifyinganExisting
Partitiononpage186).
Usethefollowingstepstocreateacleaningpartition.
1. AccesstheBlueScalePartitio nwizard(seeAccessingthePartition
Wizardonpage164).
2. FromthePartitionsscreen,thenextstepdependsonwhetherany
partitions,includingacleaningpartition,arealreadyconfigured.
 Ifthelibrarydoesnotcurrentlyhaveanypartitionsconfigured,the
Partitionsscreendisplaystwooptionsforcreatingapartition.Select
Manually create a partition,thenclickNew.
Important
Do not select the Automatically create a partition option. Doing so configures all
of the available slots in the library as a storage partition. You then need to modify
the storage partition to make slots available for a cleaning partition.
Figure 100 Select Manually create a partition to create a
cleaning partition.