After the autochanger unloads the cleaning tape back into the magazine, push the eject button to eject the magazine and remove the cleaning tape. However, you can put a cleaning tape in slot 6 of the autochanger and reserve the slot for cleaning. Using non-recommended cleaning cartridges can result in much degraded head life. To avoid this problem, quality data grade tapes and cleaning cartridges should always be used in StorageExpress System tape drives. To increase the reliability of your backups, stop using a tape when it is beyond its useful life.
Clean tape drives regularly and often, always marking the date on the cartridge label.
Plan to retire data tapes well in advance of the manufactures recommended duty cycle. This product is no longer being manufactured by Intel.