Spectra T50e - Manually Cleaning a Drive

Chapter 15—Maintaining the Drives Cleaning a Drive
August 2017 User Guide—Spectra T50e Library
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Manually Cleaning a Drive
Theprocessforloadingacleaningcartridgeintothedrivedependson
whetherornotacleaningpartitionisassociatedwiththestoragepartition
containingthedriveyouneedtoclean.
Cleaning Partition Present
Ifacleaningpartitionispresentandcontainsacleaningcartridge,youcan
usetheCleanfeatureontheDrivesscreentomanuallycleanadrive.See
CreatingaCleaningPartitiononpage165forinformationabout
configuringacleaningpartition.
1. Logintothelibrary.
2. Ifnecessary,createamovequeuetoimportacleaningcartridgeintothe
cleaningpartition(see
MoveCartridgesWithinaPartitiononpage219).
Acleaningpartitionisnot
associatedwiththestorage
partitionandyour
softwarepackagedoesnot
havefeaturesthatallow
forscheduleddrive
cleanings,
Importacleaningcartridgeintothepartitionandcleanthedrive
manuallyasdescribedin
NoCleaningPartitionPresentonpage441.
Youmaychoosetoleaveacleaningcartridgeineachstoragepartition
sothatitisavailablewheneveryouneedit.
CAUTION: Make sure that the cleaning cartridge has a barcode label.
Your software must be able to identify the cleaning cartridge and use
it only for cleaning drives. Any attempts to use a cleaning cartridge for
data storage causes backup failures.
AGlobalSparedrive
requirescleaninganda
cleaningpartitionisnot
present,
Prepareandcleanthedriveasfollows:
1. PausethePostScanoperationifitisusingtheGlobalSparedrivethat
needscleaning(see
PausethePostScanProcessonpage255).
2. TemporarilysubstitutetheGlobalSparedriveforadriveina
partitionthatisassociatedwiththeGlobalSparedrive(see
Usethe
GlobalSpareDriveonpage403).
3. Cleanthedrivemanually(seeNoCleaningPartitionPresenton
page441).
4. ReclaimtheGlobalSparedrivesothatitisagainavailableforuseasa
spare(see
UndotheGlobalSpareDriveonpage405).
If... Then...