Gerald,

As I understand it, this is normal.  If you look them up, one is a message
that the drive needs cleaning, the other is a record showing that the
drive went through a cleaning cycle.

Regards,
Brian

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Gerald Wichmann wrote:

// 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
//