> We use DLT IV tapes in our DLT 7000 tape drives.
> This tape library ran sweet for a year, until
> it overused a DLT cleaning tape because the cleaning
> count threshold had not been set.  StorageTek has
> since set the cleaning tape threshold, and we sort
> of suspected that there may be contaminated tapes
> in the library.  We are watching for media errors,
> and if we feel the tape error rate is excessive, then
> we will call StorageTek in to look at the tape drives.

That sounds like a good idea. Every time we had errors we couldn't explain
the drives were always to blame. We have since a long period of errors and
damned downtime been up to date with firmwares and such, and we're ok now!
Cleaning count threshold, better check that out at our site. Thanks for
that tip :)


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