Our 3590 drives get cleaned 2-4 times per day, each generating
those AIX error log messages.

>From our morning report . . . . .

== r036 ===============================================================
== drive activity
== Fri Apr 28 06:02:40 EDT 2006
=======================================================================

Drive  Mounts  Dismounts  Cleanings

GO-DRV0          36        36         2
GO-DRV1          53        53         3
GO-DRV10          40        39         3
GO-DRV11          37        37         3
GO-DRV12          39        39         4
GO-DRV13          53        54         2
GO-DRV14          57        57         2
GO-DRV15          44        44         3
GO-DRV2          42        42         3
GO-DRV3          39        40         3
GO-DRV4          45        45         3
GO-DRV5          51        51         2
GO-DRV6          39        38         2
GO-DRV7          39        39         2
GO-DRV8          26        25         1
GO-DRV9          48        48         3





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>> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:33:39 -0400, "Patterson, Scott"
<SPatterson AT HESS DOT COM> said:

> server is running AIX 5.3 ML3
> TSM is at 5.2.7

> IDENTIFIER TIMESTAMP  T C RESOURCE_NAME  DESCRIPTION
> [...]


What kind of tape drives?

I see frequencies like this in my 3590s: they each get cleaned about
once a day.  The 3592s are MUCH less frequent.


- Allen S. Rout



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