Davina Treiber wrote:
>I suppose you can guess where I'm going with this. I'm trying to solve
>the dilemna of the best way to clean drives. If I could detect this
>condition I could simply set the "needs cleaning" flag for jukebox
>drives and NetWorker would clean it, effectively giving clean-on-demand
>controlled by NetWorker. Apparently some newer versions of NetWorker can
>do this for Win2K only, but this doesn't help me. I would use jukebox
>firmware controlled cleaning, but the problem is the visibility of when
>the cleaning tapes need replacing. This is fine if your jukebox is close
>enough to physically visit regularly, but I am looking after kit that is
>spread all over the country. Some libraries have a network interface
>with a web console etc., but this is not universally available in the
>company I am working at. So I am still looking for the holy grail of
>drive cleaning.

Drive cleaning is indeed the achilles heel of Legato NetWorker. Currently
our Adic Scalar 1000 decides on it own when it needs cleaning. NetWorker
6.1.2 seems unaware that when it has trouble with tape positioning and the
drive indicates that it needs cleaning, it should just unload and load the
volume to allow the jukebox to clean the drive.


greetings,

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