BTW what does self-cleaning mean? We have SL500 drives but the Sun
(Storagetek) engineer has assigned a slot or 2 for cleaning tapes so
they obviously consider the drives might need cleaning tapes, although
they are supposed to be self-cleaning.

Cheers,

Tim 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of bob944
Sent: Monday, 19 March 2007 9:20 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Jason.Ellis at indymacbank.com
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning Frequency for SSO Drives

> In our NBU 6.0 MP4 environment we can clean SSO drives, but we also 
> have three NBU 5.1 MP4 environments, which will not let us clean SSO 
> drives.
> [...]

> Is there a why to specify the cleaning frequency on SSO drives? The 
> cleaning frequency setting under Device Monitor, accessed by 
> right-clicking on the drive and selecting Drive Cleaning Set Cleaning 
> Frequency, is grayed out on all our SSO drives.
> Additionally there does
> not seem to be a way to change the attributes of the tape drive to 
> specify a cleaning frequency from the Change Drive dialogue box for 
> our SSO drives.

Are you still trying to set frequency-based cleaning on your drives?
Why?  

Unless you have antique drives, they will almost certainly implement the
TapeAlert standard and/or self-clean.  Do you have your drive
manufacturer's recommendation to clean them based on usage hours?


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