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Heiner E. Lennackers
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Cleaning Tapes

Hi,

can i use Type III Cleaning Tapes to clean a DLT7000 drive? Or MUST it be a Type IV Cleaning Tape?

Heiner
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Eugeny Brychkov
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Re: Cleaning Tapes

Hello Heiner,
I found "HP DLT Cleaning Cartridge" with p/n C5142A is recommended for cleaning DLT7000 drives. They should be used to clean drive 20 times.
Do you really have DLT Type III cleaning tape? I thought that only data tapes are of III or IV types.... What's exactly do you have printed on the tape? Is it HP tape?
Eugeny
Xavier Gutierrez_1
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Re: Cleaning Tapes

Hi, Heiner.

I would swear there is only one type of DLT cleaning cartridge...

The difference is only in Data Cartridges.

Best regards.
Vincent Farrugia
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Re: Cleaning Tapes

Hello,

There are no type III or type IV cleaning cartridges. Normal DLT8000 cleaning cartridge is compatible with DLT8000, 7000 and 4000, I guess even lower than that but I'm not certain. Reason being that the tape abrasivity of all DLT family is essentially the same.

HTH,
Vince
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Heiner E. Lennackers
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Re: Cleaning Tapes

Hi have definitely a cleantape with TYPE III, you are right, the others (which i thought it was type IV) have no type on it.

sorry.
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