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Identifying Exhausted/Expired Cleaning Tape Characteristics

The cleaning tape for a DDS/DAT drive only moves in one direction. Looking at the figure below if all of the
tape resides on the left roller, then you have a new cleaning tape. If all the tape resides on the Right roller then the
tape is expired.
Drive Type
Dell PowerVault DAT72, DDS4, and
other manufacturer DDS drives
The cleaning light on a DDS/DAT drive can come on for two reasons.
1. A periodic maintenance threshold has been exceeded.
2.
A high error rate has occurred. This can happen for 3 reasons.
A head clog
A hardware failure on the drive
Bad or marginal media. (see Troubleshooting Cleaning/Read/Write errors)
Note: Run Dell PowerEdge
Dell DDS/DAT Media Handbook

Figure 13- New and Expired Cleaning Media

Cleaning with a Good Tape
Tape and Drive LED will turn on while
drive is cleaned and media will eject
when completed.

Table 5 Characteristics of DDS/DAT cleaning tape in various drives

TM
Diagnostics to determine media or hardware related failures.
Cleaning with an Expired Tape
Clean light will flash rapidly and Media
Light will remain on.
Nothing will happen and tape will stay
in drive.
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