We have an ibm h70 running aix 4.3.3 and TSM 3.7.3. It s hooked up to an ibm
3494 with two magstar 3590 drives. A month ago we saw some tape drive needs
cleaning messages in the aix error report. They repeated today..

IDENTIFIER TIMESTAMP  T C RESOURCE_NAME  DESCRIPTION
E507DCF9   1210101500 I H rmt1           TAPE DRIVE NEEDS CLEANING
D1A1AE6F   1210101500 I H rmt1           TAPE SIM/MIM RECORD

I m wondering if this is normal? To my knowledge the 3494 should be cleaning
itself as it does have cleaning tapes and is all configured to do so
automatically.

Gerald Wichmann
Systems Engineer
Sansia System Solutions
408-844-8893 work
408-884-9801 fax