Hi everybody,

I'm sure this question has been answered a number of times but its
becoming a major issue in our environment.

We are getting these spurious 'Warning: tape drive <<<\\.\Tape nn>>>
requires cleaning' warnings

We have been told it's a know issue with W2k DLTTAPE.sys version.
Therefore we upgraded to SP4.
Firware has also be updated to latest version .We use TZ89,DLT7000 and
DLT8000
The problem is still there. We have 80 server and have started to use an
event monitoring system which generates automatic 
Warning tickets on every time this event occurs. Therefore it becomes a
major problem.
Also, this warning adds to consecutive errors counter of the drives
involved. They eventually go into service mode and have to be reset.

Another question,

Does anybody know the 'cleaning required ' field on drives work when
automatic cleaning is not used.
I have checked and sometimes this field actually say has 'cleaning
required' set to YES. I end up manually changing it to NO.
I don't see the purpose of it it.

Thanks in advance
Savin
HP

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