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No, I wasn't sure the light wasn't burned out (And I DID think of that).

I just stuck the cleaning cartridge in and the clean light came on. I will
clean it twice.

Thanks.


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It never hurts to clean a tape drive, and if it has not been cleaned in a
while it might take a couple of cleanings to get it ready.

Any LTO cleaning tape will do regardless of the brand/labeling.

Besides, are you sure the light is not burned out?

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 8:15 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: [PCTECH] Tape drive cleaning

All,

We back up a number of Windows servers to an HP1760 LTO4 tape drive. The
last couple of backups have taken much longer than normal (8.5+ hours vs 7
hours), but there were no errors. Amount of data has not changed.

In looking at possibilities I thought of cleaning the tape drive with the
cleaning cartridge I have. The "Clean" light is not flashing, but I don't
remember the last time I did it. The manual says "An Ultrium universal
cleaning cartridge should ONLY (emphasis mine) be used when the orange
Clean
LED is flashing."

Since it's not flashing, is it going to hurt to clean it? I can't imagine
how, but there are many things I do not know.

Thanks.

--
Jeff Crosby
VP Information Systems
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.
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