Oh! Well, that should be fun to validate.

"This error message is to tell you we avoided the error of your drive
getting too dirty."

And people wonder why I worry about so much.

Thanks, David.


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Ehresman,David E. <deehre01 AT louisville DOT 
edu
> wrote:

> My recollection is that when the 3584 was set up autoclean the drives, it
> caused one or two entries in the errpt when it did a drive clean.
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Nick Laflamme
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 11:08 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] 3584 ALMS and uncleaned drives
>
> After three years in a data center in which actual physical tapes were
> forbidden, I'm now doing penance in a smaller data center using a
> honest-to-god 3584 with ALMS.
>
> To my surprise, I'm seeing entries in an AIX 6.1 error report that some of
> my tape drives need cleaning, and I'm finding corresponding ANR8914I
> messages in my activity log. This makes me fear that the ALMS automated
> cleaning isn't happening. (The first alternate proposal is that I'm
> expecting too much.)
>
> If it matters, we're using 3592 drives, not LTO drives. Also, TSM 6.2 on
> AIX 6.1.
>
> Is this a sign that we need to update our 3584 microcode? Is there some
> interaction between the 3584 and AIX that prompts the 3584 to notify AIX
> instead of just quietly cleaning the drive?
>
> (I'm so happy that DataDomain's 3584 emulation didn't strive to match these
> nuances....)
>
> Nick
>