Richard,

The tape is a genuine IBM Cleaning cartridge that came with the library.
Per the "Storwatch Specialist":

VOLID is CLNI81L1 and is in element address 1025 (3584-L32 library).
Remaining Cleanings is 50.  (I think that's the number of cleanings on 
these cartridges ?)

Storwatch shows this as Cleaning Cartridge and that AutoClean is
enabled.

(I see another user this morning reported their tape has been used
twice in a year and he pumps more data than me.  That's the first
person that I can remember that has reported an actual automatic
use of an LTO cleaning cartridge.)  Maybe thses drives/tapes
are REAL clean already!



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>>> rbs AT BU DOT EDU 06/24/03 08:48AM >>>
>Interesting.  I have had an IBM 3584 library with (8) LTO1 drives, FC attached
>for over a year with no problem.  Cleaning tape was installed initially and
>autoclean turned on on the library.  Tape has not been used yet!.  I backup
>nearly 700GB of data a day and make offsite copies.  Don't do a lot of
>restores. I started with 100 tapes in system and now have 220.
>
>I remember a thread some months ago - maybe a year about cleaning.  Everybody
>then commented that their cleaning tapes weren't getting used either.

Let's pursue some details to try to pin this down...

 - The cleaning tape is an LTO type, with a volser prefix of "CLNI" or "CLNU"?
   (Otherwise the library thinks of it as a data cartridge.)
 - It was inserted using the procedure as documented in the 3584 manual?
 - It resides in a normal data cell (not the Diagnostic Tape cell)?
 - You have verified that Auto Clean is (still) activated?

If all of the above checks out, I would try following the manual's procedures
for removing a cleaning cartridge, and then reintroduce it, watching
particularly for a "Moving cleaning cartridge" message followed by
"Insertion of Cleaning Cartridges has completed".  Then re-check Auto Clean
being active.

Manually perform a Clean Drive operation to assure that the library understands
the cleaning cartridge and that the function occurs.

If still nadda, have your CE upgrade the library microcode, as appropriate;
and the drives microcode, as they may be failing to signal that they need
cleaning.

  Richard Sims, BU

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