Chapter 15—Maintaining the Drives Cleaning a Drive
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No Cleaning Partition Present
Ifacleaningpartitionisnotassociatedwiththestoragepartition
containingthedriveyouneedtoclean,acleaningcartridgemustbe
presentinthestoragepartition.
Usethefollowingstepstocleanthedrive.
1. Logintothelibrary.
Note: Youmustbeloggedinasasuperuseroradministratorinorder
toimportacartridgeintothestoragepool.
2. Ifacleaningcartridgeisnotstoredinthestoragepartition,importone
intothestoragepartitioncontainingthedrivethatneedscleaning.
Ifthereisanemptyslotinthestoragepartition,createamovequeue
tomoveacleaningcartridgefromtheaccessporttotheemptyslot
inthepartition(seeMoveCartridgesWithinaPartitionon
page219).
—OR—
Ifthereisnotanemptyslotinthestoragepartition,createamove
queuetomoveadatacartridgetotheaccess port.Exchangethedata
cartridgeforacleaningcartridgeandthenmovethecleaning
cartridgetotheslotvacatedbythedatacartridge.
3. Usethecleaningcartridgebarcodelabelinformationtodetermineits
location,asdescribedinLocateaSpecificCartridgeonpage218.
4. Createamovequeuetomovethecleaningcartridgefromtheslot
whereitisstoredtothedrivethatneedscleaning(seeMoveCartridges
WithinaPartitiononpage219).
Thedriveautomaticallyperformsthecleaning,whichtakes
approximatelyoneminute,andejectsthecartridgewhenfinished.
5. Createamovequeuetomovethecleaningcartridgefromthedrive
backtotheslotfromwhichitcame.
6. ChecktheDriveDetailsscreentoconfirmthatthecleaningwas
successful.
Ifthecleaningcartridgewasexpiredbeforethecleaningstarted,the
driveautomaticallyejectsthecartridgeanddoesnotperformthe
cleaning.TheDriveDetailsscreenstillindicatesthatthedriveneeds
cleaning.Performthefollowingsteps:
a. Exporttheexpiredcleaningcartridge.
b. Importanunexpiredcleaningcartridge.
c. RepeatStep3onpage441throughStep6onthispagetocleanthe
drive.