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From: cfisun!!rich@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Baughman)
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Subject: cleaning Exabyte drive heads?
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Date: 12 Sep 90 18:02:21 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 313, message 5

We have recently acquired two Exabyte 8mm drives for backups.  They are
working great with no problems so far.  I have been reading that it's a
good idea to clean them after every ~30 hours of use.  I got the cleaning
tapes, but I'm not sure how to use them!  Do I just load them once, then
unload them (will that 'rub' the heads enough to clean them)?  Do I tar
some big file to them, or start a dump?  Am I missing something obvious?

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Rich Baughman		  rich@cfi.com OR ima!cfisun!rich
Price Waterhouse          Waltham, MA  617-899-6500