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Clean a drive, Load firmware, Cleaning a drive – Dell PowerVault 132T LTO/SDLT (Tape Library) User Manual

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Power the drive on or off

Figure 7. Tools menu

Cleaning a Drive

Clean Drive allows you to manually clean your drive components. To use this feature, you may either have a cleaning cartridge already in a slot that has been
configured as a cleaning slot, or you can wait until you are prompted to insert a cleaning cartridge into the I/E slot. For more information on configuring
cleaning slots, see

Configure Cleaning Slots

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Path:

 

Load Firmware

Load Firmware allows you to manually update your firmware using a firmware update tape cartridge.

Path:

Selection

Description/Result

Step 1 From the Tools menu, highlight

and press

.

Manually cleans a drive.

Step 2 Press

and

to select the drive

to be cleaned.

If you have two drives installed, you can
clean Drive 1 or Drive 2.

Step 3 Press

to highlight Run (

) and

then press

.

If you have a cleaning slot configured, the
library uses the cartridge in that slot to clean
the drive, and returns the cartridge to the
cleaning slot.

If you do not have a cleaning cartridge in a
previously configured cleaning slot, you are
prompted to insert a cleaning cartridge into
the I/E slot. After the drive is cleaned, the
cleaning tape is returned to the I/E slot.

NOTE: If you put the cleaning cartridge

into the I/E slot before you start the drive
cleaning process, you are prompted to
remove the cartridge and start the drive
cleaning process over again.

 

Step 4 A completion screen displays. Press

to dismiss.

  

Selection

Description/Result

Step 1 Open the IE door and insert the
firmware update tape into the IE slot.