Item Subject: 3590 tape drive cleaning
     I know this is a very POOR answer but... have you given any thought to
     a 3494-L10 library unit... I believe the price is less than $100,000
     and holds 200 tapes. I really like the two I work with, except that
     the users now think we can store the world and have sucked up almost 2
     terabytes of physical space... I know it is my policies allowing this
     to happen but hey, if their departments want to pay for it...
     later
          Dwight
     (oh, to answer the question... the library manager will schedule drive
     cleanings and the cleaning carts are kept in the library)


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Subject: 3590 tape drive cleaning
Author:  ADSM-L at unix,sh/dd.RFC-822=ADSM-L\@VM\.MARIST\.EDU
Date:    7/12/96 3:37 PM


Hey there all;

I'm running ADSM V2 for AIX. I've got a pair of 3590B11 tape drives. I would
like to set up a simple procedure for cleaning the tape drives. I would rather
not have our operators take the drive(s) out of "random" mode in order to
manually load the cleaing cartridge.

I would prefer a procedure that would load the cleaning cart from the priority
cell and then run a program/script that would clean the drive and then unload
the cleaner back out to the priority cell.

A utility (tapeutil) that is part of the software package installed with the
drive may be useful for this purpose, but as of yet I have not been able to
make it work.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Ivan



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