Author: Brian_Drager AT vanguard DOT com Brian_Drager AT vanguard DOT com
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 07:38:57 -0400
Question about DLT Cleaning. We turned auto clean off on out STK 9710. We also added 5 DLT per each Silo for DLT-CLN. Last night we received a lot of media errors, status code 84 -86. Non of the driv
Author: Mario Palafox Mario.Palafox AT eng.sun DOT com
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 08:46:49 -0700 (PDT)
Brian, Did you set the frequency. I have my frequency set to 200 hours of mount time. It will vary from place to place. You can use the gui or command line. tpclean -F device_name clean_frequency <ve
--5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was hoping you'd reply to this. You seem to know more about this stuff than anyone around.
The cleaning tape is abrasive and as such it will contribute to the wearing out of the expensive little heads of your expensive little DLT drives. :) Something that Curtis didn't mention (I bet he w
Author: W. Curtis Preston curtis AT colltech DOT com
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 16:02:55 -0700
Damn! Just when I thought I knew everything! ;) If this functionality works, this is a Beautiful Thing (tm). Does anyone already have a script that uses cleanstats and complains if the cleaning tape
--==_-1257011842==_== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I wrote this perl script to do this about a year ago - I haven't even looked it at in some time, so I recommend lo
Author: acrocker AT lineone DOT net acrocker AT lineone DOT net
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:29:02 +0100 (BST)
Some comments on this thread below... Only a few drive types support TapeAlert (most notably DLT7000 and STK9840). I understood this was a new feature to 3.2. Earlier versions do not support TapeAler
Author: Roy Vosberg Roy.Vosberg AT veritas DOT com
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 08:53:26 -0500
Some good reading on TapeAlert if anyone is interested: http://www.quantum.com/src/configs/dlt_solution/dlt_sol_terms.htm http://www.hp.com/tape/papers/tapealert.html TapeAlert and NetBackup To make
Author: BVOLL AT newsamerica DOT com BVOLL AT newsamerica DOT com
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 21:12:55 -0400
believe it to be would trainer through the material) > as a data tape only not polished. Since it's movement over the heads is identical "Not polished" is why it is abrasive. What's being polished i
Author: Michael Traves mtraves.news AT home DOT com
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 19:55:13 -0400
A DLT tape drive is typically described as "self-cleaning", and as such should only be cleaned when it actually requests it. Excessive cleaning beyond this does increase head-wear -- just ask your S
Author: Taylor, Larry A. LTaylor AT sempra DOT com
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 09:19:07 -0700
Here's what Quantum recommends: "Q: Is head cleaning required for a DLT drive? A: No periodic head cleaning is required. The Use Cleaning Tape indicator on the front panel of the drive will light whe