Re: 3590 Tape Drive Errors
2001-08-28 10:42:30
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Re: 3590 Tape Drive Errors |
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Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> |
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Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:43:52 -0400 |
>Has anybody seen these errors before? IBM has been here many times &
>replaced the read/write heads & loaded the latest micro code on the drives
>but I keep getting them.....
Bruce - You can verify that the 3494 is actually doing cleanings by
periodically running: mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qL
where the "avail 3590 cleaner cycles" should decrement over time.
Air pollution and dust don't help matters. Consider having your CE
do a periodic wet cleaning (a manual task, opening the drive), and
note if the problem disappears after such a cleaning, to see if
cleanliness is the issue - which the TAPE_DRIVE_CLEANING record would
seems to indicate.
Richard Sims, BU
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