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[Veritas-bu] Off-topic: Mean time between cleaning on LTO drives?

2004-05-10 16:17:38
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Off-topic: Mean time between cleaning on LTO drives?
From: dlogcher AT MIT DOT EDU (Dan Logcher)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:17:38 -0400
Stephens, John wrote:

> Cleaning is abrasive to the heads.  You should let the drive tell the 
> robot when it needs cleaning and let the robot do the cleaning for you.  
> I wouldn't force a cleaning.  If you are having issues with one drive, I 
> would suspect alignment problems and you should have maintenance replace 
> it.  If you are having issues with multiple drives, I would suspect the 
> media. 

Speaking of media.. what brand are people using with their LTO Gen II drives?
We have IBM drives and Fujifilm tapes.  We get some media write errors from
time to time, which I suspect are poor quality tapes.  Anyone else seeing this?

-- 
Dan


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