Spectra T950 - Manually Cleaning a Drive

Chapter 15 — Maintaining the Drives Cleaning a Drive
November 2016 User Guide—Spectra T950 Library
465
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187forinformationabout
configuringacleaningpartition.
1. Logintothelibraryasauserwithsuperuseroradministrator
privileges,orasanoperatorassignedtothepartition.
2. Ifnecessary,importamagazine containingoneormorecleaning
cartridgesintothecleaningpartition(seeImportingintoaStorageor
CleaningPartitiononpage226).
3. SelectConfiguration > DrivesorConfiguration > DLMifMLMis
enabled.TheDrivesscreendisplays.
4. ClickCleannexttothedrivethatneedscleaning.Thelibraryretrievesa
cleaningcartridgefromthecleaningpartitionandinsertsitintothe
drive.TheDriveCleaningProgressscreendisplayswhilethecleaning
isinprogress.
5. Whenthecleaningiscomplete,thelibraryreturnsthecleaning
cartridgetothecleaningpartitionanddisplaysastatusmessage.
IfthecleaningcartridgeisMLM‐enabled,thecartridgehealthand
CleansRemainingareupdatedintheMLMdatabase.
Figure 299 The Drives screen.