Cleaning a Tape Drive
Chapter 8 Managing Drives and Disks
Working with Tape Drives
4After the Status Screen informs you that the drive’s status was successfully changed, click Close. The Change Drive State screen shows the changed state for the drive you selected.
5If desired, repeat steps 2 - 4 to change the state for additional tape drives.
Use this procedure to manually clean a tape drive.
Note: To perform this procedure, you must have at least one cleaning tape specifically labeled for cleaning. For example, CLN_XXX.
1From the SNSM home page, choose Drive > Clean Drive from the Admin menu. The Clean Drive screen appears.
Figure 140 Clean Drive Screen
2Select from the Select Drive List the drive you want to clean, and then click Apply. The Clean Drive status screen appears.
3After the Status screen notifies you that the drive has been cleaned successfully, click Close.
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