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Question posted by slapinky2 on March 8th, 2014

How To Clean The Heads On Dell Tl2000 Tape Library

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Answer #1: Posted by MWatDell on March 12th, 2014 10:52 PM

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Hi slapinky2

If I understand your question correctly, you want to clean the tape drive on a TL2000, yes?

Please refer to this manual on Page 91, 123 and 151 on how to perform the cleaning:-
ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_powervault/powervault-tl4000_User's%20Guide_en-us.pdf

Hope this helps.

MW@Dell

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