Exabyte EXB-8505 8mm manual Exabyte Cleaning Cartridges

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Exabyte Cleaning Cartridges

Use an Exabyte 8mm Cleaning Cartridge to clean the tape drive. The Exabyte 8mm Cleaning Cartridge contains a shed-free fabric tape that traps and removes debris from tape drive heads and tape paths. By using this cleaning cartridge on a regular basis, you maintain data integrity and improve reliability of the tape drive.

Exabyte 8mm Cleaning Cartridges come in two sizes: 3c and 12c. Used in a half-high tape drive, the 3c cartridge offers up to 9 cleaning passes, and the 12c cartridge can offer as many as 36 cleaning passes. Details on the cleaning intervals are given in Chapter 4.

Note: If you are using these cleaning cartridges with Exabyte full-high 8mm tape drives, you will get fewer cleaning passes per cartridge. Because full-high tape drives have a longer tape path, more material is required for each cleaning.

CAUTION

The Exabyte 8mm Cleaning Cartridge (or an Exabyte-approved cleaning cartridge) is the only authorized method for cleaning the tape drive. Other 8mm cleaning kits can leave fragments in the tape path or on the heads. If you use any other type of cleaning material, you will void the tape drive warranty.

1-22	EXB-8205 and EXB-8505	510504
	(Standard and XL)