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Re: 3590 Tape Drive Errors

2001-08-28 10:42:30
Subject: Re: 3590 Tape Drive Errors
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
Date: 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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