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Re: 3570/3575 autoclean ?

1998-09-13 17:42:20
Subject: Re: 3570/3575 autoclean ?
From: Peter Gathercole <peter.gathercole AT VIRGIN DOT NET>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:42:20 +0100
ADSM ignores cleaning cartridges, but the 3575 can only have one at a time in
the library. Also, it is necessary to check how many times that the cartridge
has been used. I can find no way of doing this without taking the library
offline.

Peter Gathercole
Open Systems Consultant

Dirk Kastens wrote:

> At 14:23 10.09.98 +0100, you wrote:
> >     Hello all,
> >
> >     To avoid "tape drive needs cleaning" messages in the AIX errorlog
> >     someone suggested we enable autoclean on the 3570 and 3575 libraries.
> >     I remember reading an advise somewhere against enabling autoclean as
> >     this might conflict with ADSM operations.
>
> I remember having read the same. You can't put a cleaning cartridge
> into one of the slots because this will confuse ADSM.
> Can someone confirm this?
>
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