It's worse than all that; you cannot really disable the tape-alert feature.
Even when you set the cleaning frequency to 100 (hours), if the drive
signals it needs cleaning after 50 hours, avrd will schedule a cleaning
cycle...

-----Original Message-----
From: Dongfang Liao [mailto:dongfang.liao AT rogers DOT com]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:25 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark; Veritasbu (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] TapeAlert


If you want to use tapealert feature, you have to disable the
frequence-based cleaning, which is set to 0 hours for your drive.
 
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Thanks
ldf

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Donaldson, Mark <mailto:Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com>  
To: Veritasbu (E-mail) <mailto:veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>  
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:28 PM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] TapeAlert


Is the tapealert feature a switchable option?  My vendor tells me that our 
library is compatible but NB doesn't seem to react. 
  
I have frequence-based cleaning turned on and I also have a cron-job that 
sweeps the UNIX log files for the library's cleaning request message, then
runs tpclean. 

The manuals have much describing the tapealert feature but no reference on
how to 
enable or disable that I can find. 

-Mark