I am trying to clean a T10000A drive, To better view this I kept the top cover off and loaded data tapes and they wind around the hub fine, I ejected it and tried loading a cleaning tape, well it did not wind. The VOP program showed CLEANING but there was no movement of the tape at all. I tried this with 3 different cleaning tapes and all did the same thing. I tried a data tape again and that loaded fine. anyone know why it will not load a cleaning tape properly?
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T10000 drive not cleaning
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Most of the STK cleaning sequences on the drives 9840 and up, will look like they are cleaning on the OP panel, but they will NOT clean unless the cleaning light is on. I'm sure the threashold is set in the firmware. The cleaning tape is very abrasive and they don't want pre-mature head wear.
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