What is the life span of the cleaning tape?
Your library came with a cleaning tape. This tape should be used to clean the drive(s) of your library when the icon appears in the drive status field of the LCD. Your tape library will keep track of each time a cleaning tape is used and tell you when it has expired. After you first import an LTO cleaning tape into a drive, the life span can be read from the Inventory menu. From the Operator Panel, select the Status—> Inventory command. An LTO cleaning cartridge can be used approximately 50 times, and the inventory count shows 50 cleans remaining until you load the tape into a drive for the first time. An SDLT-320 cleaning cartridge can be used approximately 20 times. For more information on cleaning the drive, see Cleaning a Drive.
