Retensioning Tapes | Quantum Travan 40 GB manual

Operation and Maintenance

Retensioning Tapes

Travan tapes must be retensioned frequently to ensure data integrity and optimize drive performance. If you ever have a problem reading a tape, retensioning may solve the problem. Some backup software automatically retensions Travan media before a backup or restore. See your software manual for tape retensioning instructions.

We recommend retensioning whenever a cartridge:

•Is being used for the first time

•Has not been used for over a month

•Has been dropped

•Hasbeen shipped from one location to another

•Has been exposed to a significant change in temperature

For optimum performance, cartridges should be retensioned prior to each use if your backup software does not retension them automatically. See the literature included with your tape cartridge for additional cartridge operating recommendations.

Cleaning the Tape Drive Mechanism

Under typical conditions, the tape heads should be cleaned after every twenty-four hours of use. However, in adverse conditions or when error rates become high, the tape drive recording mechanism should be cleaned after every eight hours of use.

Use only a dry-process cleaning cartridge to clean this drive. When you insert a cleaning cartridge in the drive, the drive recognizes the cleaning cartridge and automatically starts the cleaning process. After about 10 seconds, when the cleaning process is complete, the DRIVE LED stops flashing and the cleaning cartridge is ejected.

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