It's on by default, and AFAIK there's no way to turn it off.  If Media
Manager sees an alert and a cleaning tape is available, the drive gets
cleaned.  I agree, one sentence in the manual could make this a lot
clearer.

ADIC should be able to tell you if they support it with your
robot/drive.  

What I'd really like to know is if there's a way to test it.  I
suppose that would have to come from the hardware vendor too.  I was
lucky enough to see it happen once, but not on an ADIC (it was a Sun
L3500 with DLT7000).

L

John_Wang AT enron DOT net writes:
> 
> 
> Hello Larry
> 
> Hmmm,  I remember going through the manual for 3.4 very carefully before I set
> up the cleaning tapes at this site.
> 
> There is a blurb on page 286 about TapeAlert that states that not all robots,
> drives and firmware levels support reactive cleanings but that if yours did 
> you
> could do both frequency based and reactive cleanings.   Never found out how.
> The blurb references a chart on page 276 that basically said "yes" for TL8, a
> lot of good that does.
> 
> It's a feature that I wanted to turn on, tried very hard to find info on it in
> the manuals, but didn't find anything useful.   Maybe you can tell me how to 
> use
> TapeAlert, I've got an ADIC Scalar 1000 with Sony AIT2 drives.
> 
> Regards,
> John I Wang
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> Steverson Information Professionals
> 
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