Just cleaned it the other day, but I can check that. I manually clean
them. I don't think the library is set up for automatic cleaning. That
is a feature that can be set on the library itself. If it's not set, I
would think that it wouldn't know unless the drive issued a problem, but
I cleaned it yesterday, so that shouldn't be the case. However, if the
library was set to clean, and it couldn't and it realized it had been
more than the allowed time since the last cleaning then maybe it might
set it read only. I'm gonna place a call to tech support on the drive
and see what they say.

Thanks to all!

George

Byron Servies wrote:
>
> On Jul 28, 2004, at 12:31 PM, George Sinclair wrote:
>
> > Yeah, it almost seems like some kind of hardware issue, like maybe
> > something internal to the drive that allows write access has been
> > unset.
> > Not sure how, though. There are no power switches on the drives that I
> > can tell, only the buton to eject the tape and some leds. When I
> > manually load/unload a tape from this drive, the lights behave exactly
> > the same as on the other drives. The only power switches I see are on
> > the back of the unit. I power cycled the library, but maybe I need to
> > leave it off longer?
>
> Does it go into read only mode when it needs cleaning?
>
> # mt -f /dev/nst0 status
>
> might give interesting information.
>
> Byron

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