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
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.