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Chapter 4 Operating Your Tape Drive

Cleaning the Tape Heads

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Cleaning the Tape Heads 4

If excessive dust or debris collects at the tape heads, your drive may not

be able to read from or write to tape. To avoid this situation, clean the

drive’s tape heads:

• After every 50 hours of operation

• If the Clean LED goes

To clean tape heads, use a Quantum-qualified DAT 160 cleaning

cartridge. Quantum offers a cleaning cartridge, Model MR-D6CQN-xx,

that can be ordered from w

ww.quantum.com.

To clean the tape heads:

1 Insert a Quantum-qualified DAT 160 cleaning cartridge into the

drive. The drive loads and runs the cleaning cartridge for about 60

seconds.

2 When the cleaning cartridge finishes cleaning the heads, the drive

ejects the cartridge automatically.

3 Remove the cleaning cartridge from the drive and store the cartridge

in a safe place.

Most cleaning cartridges are good for roughly 50 cleaning cycles. When

the cleaning cartridge is used up, the Clean LED will flash rapidly and

the cleaning cartridge should be replaced.

Observe the following guidelines when cleaning tape heads:

• Each time the cleaning cartridge is loaded, a new, unused portion of

cleaning tape is advanced over the entire tape path. The drive does

not rewind a cleaning cartridge.

Note: Be sure to use a DAT 160 audio cartridge and a DAT 160

cleaning cartridge. Also, avoid liquids, swabs, and other

methods other than those recommended in this section.

Note: If the cleaning cartridge runs for less than 60 seconds and

the Clean LED is flashing, the cartridge has expired.

Replace the cleaning cartridge with a new one and repeat

step 1

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