Cleaning Exabyte tapes ??

[Toerless Eckert]

We have some 8mm Exabyte tape drives, conected to Sun workstations.  One
of the tape seems to have problems writing data now, and we thought that
this might be a problem of cleaning. Audio and video tape drives have to
be cleaned sometimes, and to be demagnetized.

Has anyone experiences with this procedures on 8mm videorecorders, as
those have  the same hardware as those 8mm Exabyte drives.

Has anyone already demagnetized or cleaned his Exabyte ?  Help welcome,
please reply by mail, i'll summarize to the net..

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