Use the 3584's automatic cleaning is best practice.
I have used for 5 years and had no problem at all on my 3584.
After 5 years, the first cleaning tape is about half used.

David Longo

>>> Larry Peifer <Larry.Peifer AT SCE DOT COM> 12/21/06 8:14 PM >>>
Those of you who have the IBM 3584 tape libraries - please weigh in on
pros/cons of using either the Automatic Cleaning method of the host
library or the Tape cleaning management method of the TSM server.  We
are
configuring  two 3584's to replace our four 3583 libraries.  Our
environment is TSM 5.3x server on AIX  5.3 with LTO2 drives and LTO2
tapes
in the libraries with each library configured as it's own single
partition.

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