Hello Gerald,

we have three 3494 with 3590 Magstar Drives.
We have the same error messages in the errolog.
I have asked our IBM services technicians what these errors means. 
They said this error messages will come up on eatch cleaning procedure in the 
3590 Drives.
Some months ago we change the microcode on the 3590's. 
Now we have other errorlog entrys being caused by cleaning.

MicroCode Level 3590 drives:

  DEVICE            LOCATION          DESCRIPTION                   
                                                                    
  rmt3              30-58-00-0,0      IBM 3590 Tape Drive and Medium
                                      Changer                       
                                                                    
        Manufacturer................IBM                             
        Machine Type and Model......03590E1A                        
        Serial Number...............0000000E5264                    
        Device Specific.(FW)........D22E                            
        Loadable Microcode Level....A0B00E26                        

Error Log entrys:

IDENTIFIER TIMESTAMP  T C RESOURCE_NAME  DESCRIPTION
D1A1AE6F   1212064200 I H rmt3           AAA0
E507DCF9   1212063900 I H rmt3           AAA2
D1A1AE6F   1212063900 I H rmt3           AAA0
D1A1AE6F   1212044200 I H rmt4           AAA0

regards

Wolfgang Kroeher

DaimlerChrysler AG
TOS/IR
Data Center Operations - Europe                         
HPC: 2000
70546 Stuttgart
Phone:  +49 (0)711-17-75402
Fax:    +49 (0)711-17-75034
mailto:wolfgang.kroeher AT daimlerchrysler DOT com




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Thema:  tape drive needs cleaning

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