LTO Cleaning Label Horizontal Number Circle CLN001-CLN020

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Marianne is right - robot cleaning uses a reserved slot to avoid interfering with the backup application usage of tapes. The LTO consortium comprised of drive manufacturers HP, IBM and Quantum developed this technology to meet the increased midrange and enterprise storage demands analysts predict over the next decade. Note that color palettes are only for human identification and do not affect machine nonrecognition, since the human readable section is not read by tape libraries. As far as letting the library clean thr drives via the LCD panel, I believe there is a special barcode label, but not sure why it did not come with your unit.

One problem with hardware based autocleaning is that it can interfere with tape backup software operations. However, in most situations some degree of automation occurs through the use of tape libraries and backup software. I assume that this means that, with this Dell version, I CANNOT use the dedicated cleaning tape slots, but, instead, must use one of the data slots and setup cleaning via the host software (BUE for Win 9. After talking with Veritas tech support, they request me to move the cleaning tapes to the 2nd partiotion which is Libarary_1. They can be numeric only such as 000001 or can include 1,2 or 3 letters followed by numbers usually up to 6 characters, but can be more depending on the library.All four of our US TSCs were recently certified for ISO 14001:2015 for environmental management and re-certified for ISO 9001:2015 for quality management. If you require a variation of our color scheme, please contact us to speak with one of our sales representatives.

NetBackup has no reliance on this if it is doing cleaning itself, although the exact specification may differ between different brands of library if library based cleaning is used. The suffix has the same characteristics as the prefix, except that the suffix is placed between the variable segment and the media ID. In addition, the bar code includes the two-character media-type identifier Lx (where x equals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, T, U, V, W, X, or Y) or M8.

The robot simply listen to the clean signal from the tape drives (there is a serial connection between the drives and robot) and mount the cleaning tape when "clean" signal is seen. For example, if the human readable section has the typical length of six characters (not counting the media ID_ and the prefix is two characters long, then the variable segment should be four characters long.