These are TS1130 drives/3592 cartridges, which certainly appear to be
cleaning more often than LTO3/4's do.
We have the library set to autoclean, which means it inserts the
cleaning cart only when the drives request a cleaning.

This lib has 4 drives, averaging about 1.5-2 TB migration, + 1.5-2 2 TB
backup stgpool, + reclaims daily, ~2000 mounts a day.
Using about 1 cleaning cart (50 cleans) a month.
Don't know if that's a lot or a little, in terms of cleaning, for
TS1130's.


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Jim Zajkowski
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:57 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ejecting cleaning cartridges from the TS3500/3584

On 3/17/10 1:18 PM, "Prather, Wanda" <wPrather AT ICFI DOT COM> wrote:

> Is there a way to make the TS3500/3584 do that?  ALMS is enabled,
> multiple partitions, 3592 carts.

I certainly don't have a robot that big, but in seven years we've only
cleaned the drives a handful of times.  Am I doing something wrong?  Our
field service guy suggested that we only clean them when absolutely
necessary because repeated cleaning can cause the head to fail.

--Jim