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Re: 3494 cleaning (2 nd. try)

2003-03-10 11:54:06
Subject: Re: 3494 cleaning (2 nd. try)
From: "Cook, Dwight E" <DWIGHT.E.COOK AT SAIC DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:49:48 -0800
make sure your cleaning volume mask is set properly...
I think by default it is CLN999
I've set it to CLN***
do this all from the console on the ATL...

Dwight



-----Original Message-----
From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:Eric-van.Loon AT KLM DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:18 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 3494 cleaning (2 nd. try)


Hi Richard!
Thank you very much for not ignoring me this time :-)
The output from  /usr/bin/mtlib -l $LMCP -vqK -s fffd:

Performing Query Inventory Volume Count Data using /dev/lmcp0
Inventory Volume Count Data:
   sequence number......10143
   number of volumes....0
   category.............FFFD

It looks like my library doesn't see the cleaning tape.
About two weeks ago I saw the first cleaning errors in the AIX error log. I
went to the library and I saw that the cleaning tape was ejected to the bulk
I/O area. So I removed it from the library and I placed a new one in the
bulk I/O area. The library picked it from there and placed it in an empty
cell. I though that that was enough, but apparently not. Is there a special
procedure for checking in a cleaner cartridge?
Thanks again!!!!!
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Sims [mailto:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 16:10
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 3494 cleaning (2 nd. try)


>I haven't received an answer yet, so I'll give it another try:

We've simply been ignoring you.  ;-)

>In the IBM Redbook "IBM Magstar Tape Products Family: A Practical Guide" I
>read the following line:
>
>For 3590 Magstar drives, use a value of 999 mounts to perform cleaning
based
>on drive request rather than library initiated.
>
>So I changed the value to 999, but nothing happens. Both drives are still
>displaying *CLEAN. The library doesn't seem to pick up the drives cleaning
>request. How can I make the library clean the drives?
>Thanks in advance for any reply!!!

Well, the first thing I would check is whether you have cleaning tapes in
your
library...that they have cycles left...that they have prefixes (like "CLN")
matching the spec defined in the library, etc.

 # Get number of tapes:
 /usr/bin/mtlib -l $LMCP -vqK -s fffd

 # Get available cleaner cycles number:
 /usr/bin/mtlib -l $LMCP -qL

No cleaning tapes = no cleaning.  Available cycles is something we have to
watch
for, as it can deplete rather quietly.  (Exhausted cleaning tapes may
auto-eject, but operators may send them offsite.  ;-)

  Richard Sims, BU


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