Normal Maintenance
Cleaning the Drive Head
Keeping a drive clean is the single most important requirement for achieving and maintaining superior performance. Cleaning the head should always be performed as the first step if the CT field appears on the LCD. The tape head may be cleaned once a month, or when the CT field appears on the Operator’s Panel LCD.
Some application packages feature an auto clean cycle. If your application supports an auto clean function, ADIC strongly recommends that you use it.
Note
ADIC recommends that you use the
However, the tape capacity of the FastStor is reduced to 6 tapes whenever AUTOCLEAN is enabled.
Cleaning Tape
Use a DLT cleaning tape to clean the drive heads. A cleaning cartridge, or a coupon for a free cleaning tape is shipped with your ADIC FastStor.
DLT Cleaning Tape
Cleaning the head should always be performed as the first step if the CT field appears on the LCD.
Note
The cleaning cartridge is exhausted after it has performed 20 cleanings. The cleaning tape includes a label with 20 small boxes printed on it. Always place a check mark in a box each time the tape performs a cleaning. Replace the cleaning cartridge when it has performed 20 cleanings (all boxes will be checked).