[Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning Frequency for SSO Drives
2007-03-18 18:20:27
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[Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning Frequency for SSO Drives |
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bob944 at attglobal.net (bob944) |
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Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:20:27 -0400 |
> In our NBU 6.0 MP4 environment we can clean SSO drives, but
> we also have
> three NBU 5.1 MP4 environments, which will not let us clean
> SSO drives.
> [...]
> Is there a why to specify the cleaning frequency on SSO drives? The
> cleaning frequency setting under Device Monitor, accessed by
> right-clicking on the drive and selecting Drive Cleaning
> Set Cleaning Frequency, is grayed out on all our SSO drives.
> Additionally there does
> not seem to be a way to change the attributes of the tape drive to
> specify a cleaning frequency from the Change Drive dialogue
> box for our SSO drives.
Are you still trying to set frequency-based cleaning on your drives?
Why?
Unless you have antique drives, they will almost certainly implement the
TapeAlert standard and/or self-clean. Do you have your drive
manufacturer's recommendation to clean them based on usage hours?
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