I have a couple of L700s in production that I imported 3 cleaning
tapes each using this method.  I check the cleaning tape usage numbers
every week or so and I have yet to see the cleaning tapes used.  Are
LTOs just that efficient that they don't need to clean for years?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:45:04 -0500, Conrad Macina
<conrad.macina AT pfizer DOT com> wrote:
> It's not a stupid question, and it's only intuitive in a StorageTekkie kind
> of way. I'd never done this before either, but your question intrigued me
> and we happen to have a pre-production L700. So I tried it. Here's what I 
> found:
> 
> First, this procedure requires interaction with the jukebox, so you have to
> be there; the Admin GUI won't help you.
> 
> If your cleaning tapes are already inside the library, get 'em out.
> 
> 1. Make sure the tapes have cleaning labels; the L700 won't accept unlabeled
> cleaning tapes.
> 
> 2. On the library's front panel, Press (MENU), arrow to (CLEANING INFO) and
> press (SELECT).
> 
> 3. Arrow to IMPORT CARTRIDGES and press (SELECT)
> 
> 4. You get a message that says the CAP must be empty. Make sure the CAP is
> empty and closed and press (SELECT)
> 
> 5. The cap opens. Insert your tapes and (SELECT).
> 
> 6. Now you get a list of the tapes in the CAP. Arrow to each one in turn and
> press (SELECT). When they're all selected, press (SELECT) again (Why
> StorageTek thinks you'd insert tapes into the CAP at this point and then not
> import all of them is beyond me).
> 
> 7. The library imports the cleaning tapes into the appropriate slots and
> turns on auto cleaning.
> 
> 8. When the process is done you can press (MENU) to exit, and repeat (MENU)
> until you get to the main display.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Conrad Macina
> Pfizer, Inc.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:07:01 -0500, Neild, Jim <Jim.Neild AT SSHA.ON DOT CA> 
> wrote:
> 
> >I've got 2 L700e libraries with cleaning cartridges inside.  I have
> >NetWorker and AS, so the drives, from a host point of view, are logical.
> >This means that cleaning through NetWorker is impossible as I see it.
> >So, I want to setup automatic cleaning on the L700e.  How does one do
> >this?  I have the Library Admin GUI for the L700 and all it mentions
> >about cleaning is a "THRESHOLD" for with a default value of 25.
> >
> >This is probably a stupid question....has anyone set this up?  It just
> >seems very unintuitive.
> >
> >Any help would be great.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
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