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Re[2]: 3570/3575 autoclean ?

1998-09-10 13:09:05
Subject: Re[2]: 3570/3575 autoclean ?
From: Craig Bell <rcbell AT US.IBM DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:09:05 -0400
>>>OK, but what happens when autoclean is in effect and one of the drives
>>>    is being cleaned and ADSM wants to mount a tape in that drive? I was
>>>     told that the autoclean is triggered by the 3575 hardware and that the
>>>     ADSM server is unaware of the cleaning cartidge in the drive. So, the
>>>     question is: does autoclean work for you because is was designed to
>>>     work or are you "just lucky"?

The 3575 will queue the load of a drive that is
being cleaned, and it even tells ADSM that the drive is empty, so that
it completely hides the operation.  It works quite well.

Craig Bell
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