We have a 9710 and have the same question.  I'm still waiting for STK to
come back with an answer.  As far as I know, ADSM does not get involved with
tape drive cleaning on the 9710.  ADSM will however report media or drive
failures and suggest a drive cleaning (as I have found out too many times).
The 9710, if set for autoclean via the front panel, is supposed to insert
the cleaning tape after it exceeds a certain internal threshold for
read/write errors.  My questions are 1)what are those thresholds and how are
they set  2)how can I tell when a drive was last cleaned  3)how will I know
when the cleaning tape is used up  4)how can I force a cleaning of a
particular drive?

Any answers would be appreciated!

Thanks,
James Louie
Nabisco
973.682.7150

> On Tuesday, November 10, 1998 9:58 AM, Mark Bryant ISD SWD 600 7658
> GBZURMBT - GBZURH00 [mailto:GBZURMBT AT IBMMAIL DOT COM] wrote:
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> We have installed a StorageTek 9714 DLT tape library with an
> NT ADSM V3 server.
> What I can't find is how to get it to use a cleaning tape on
> its drives.
> StorageTek are saying that its down to the software to
> perform this but I can't
> find any mention in ADSM of how to set this up...any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>