We have the cleaning option on the 3494 set to 45 mounts.
And so stopped seeing "TAPE DRIVE NEEDS CLEANING" after that.

But we still get the SIM/MIMs and would love a key into more
info besides cleaning flags.

...joe.f.

Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley


On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Phil Bone wrote:

> How do you verify that a 3590 drive in a 3494 is being cleaned?  Daily we
> see "TAPE SIM/MIM RECORD" and "TAPE DRIVE NEEDS CLEANING" entries in the AIX
> error log.  Someone mentioned on the list a while back that the drive
> cleanings would also be recorded in the AIX log, but we can't find any.
>
> Thanks.
>
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