LTO cleaning cartridge
The LTO cleaning cartridge is used to clean LTO tape drives.
The LTO Cleaning Cartridge (known as the universal cleaning cartridge) and the LTO Cleaning Cartridge are compatible with all LTO tape drives. To enable your LTO 1 drive to use these cartridges, update the drive with the latest drive firmware.
Before a drive can be cleaned, ensure that a cleaning cartridge is loaded in the library . You can load multiple cleaning cartridges and store them in any cartridge storage slots except the slot that is reserved for the diagnostic cartridge.
The TS3500 tape library monitors the use of all cleaning
cartridges. The cleaning cartridges are valid for 50 uses. When the cartridge expires, the library
displays the following sample message on the Activity screen (where xx
equals
characters of the cartridge's VOLSER):
Remove CLNUxxL1
Cleaning Cartridge Expired
You can also enable automatic eject of expired cleaning cartridges through the Tape Library Specialist web interface by selecting .