HPE Ultrium Universal Cleaning Cartridge

C7978A is the HPE Ultrium Universal Cleaning Cartridge, an orange cleaning cartridge for Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium drives. It is meant for HP Ultrium drives that shipped after January 2002 and for older drives with a firmware upgrade. A related cleaning cartridge, C7979A, is the Legacy Cleaning Cartridge for LTO Ultrium drives, and C7978AR carries the same Universal Cleaning Cartridge description.

C7978A is among the media options for the HPE LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 and LTO-9 Ultrium 45000 tape drives, and the LTO-7, 8 and 9 drives have a Clean indicator on the front panel next to the Ready, Drive, Tape and Encryption indicators. The HPE Storage MSL Entry-level tape automation family has C7978A among its media options, and the MSL3040 and MSL6480 libraries manage cleaning cartridges through their web-based management tool.

In the earlier Ultrium kits, one C7978A came with the cartridges. The LTO1 Ultrium 200 GB Storage Media Kit C8013A has twenty C7971A data cartridges, one C7978A, twenty colored labels and a protective carrying case, and the LTO2 Ultrium 400 GB Storage Media Kit C8014A has twenty C7972A data cartridges, one C7978A, twenty colored labels and a carrying case. HPE bar code label packs for the libraries include 10 cleaning tape labels with 100 data labels. More tape media is in HPE tape drives and media.