IBM T400F manual Cleaning Cartridges, Using the Media

Cleaning Cartridges

The Ultrium 2 Tape Drive is compatible with the IBM LTO Ultrium Cleaning Cartridge (part number 08L9124) and the IBM TotalStorage Cleaning Cartridge (Ultrium LTO 2) (part number 35L2086).

The IBM TotalStorage Cleaning Cartridge functions with Ultrium-format tape drives that are produced by compliance-verified manufacturers. The cartridge lets you buy and use a single cleaning cartridge for all of your tape drives, rather than spend time and money to support several different cleaning cartridges.

The IBM TotalStorage Cleaning Cartridge (Ultrium LTO 2) is downward-compatible with the Ultrium Internal Tape Drive (Generation 1). To enable your Generation 1 drive to use the cartridge, simply download and install the latest drive firmware (for instructions, see “Updating the Firmware” on page 45).

The drive itself determines when a head needs to be cleaned. It alerts you by displaying C on the single-character display and causing the status light to become flashing amber. To clean the head, insert the cleaning cartridge into the tape load compartment (see Figure 10 on page 34). The tape drive performs the cleaning automatically. When the cleaning is finished, the drive ejects the cartridge.

To remove a cleaning cartridge, see “Unload Button” on page 33. The IBM TotalStorage Cleaning Cartridge (Ultrium LTO 2) and the IBM LTO Ultrium Cleaning Cartridge are valid for 50 uses (the cartridge’s LTO-CM chip tracks the number of times that the cartridge is used).

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