Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning Frequency for SSO Drives

2007-03-18 18:20:27
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Drive Cleaning Frequency for SSO Drives
From: bob944 at attglobal.net (bob944)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:20:27 -0400
> In our NBU 6.0 MP4 environment we can clean SSO drives, but 
> we also have
> three NBU 5.1 MP4 environments, which will not let us clean 
> SSO drives.
> [...]

> Is there a why to specify the cleaning frequency on SSO drives? The
> cleaning frequency setting under Device Monitor, accessed by
> right-clicking on the drive and selecting Drive Cleaning 
> Set Cleaning Frequency, is grayed out on all our SSO drives.
> Additionally there does
> not seem to be a way to change the attributes of the tape drive to
> specify a cleaning frequency from the Change Drive dialogue 
> box for our SSO drives.

Are you still trying to set frequency-based cleaning on your drives?
Why?  

Unless you have antique drives, they will almost certainly implement the
TapeAlert standard and/or self-clean.  Do you have your drive
manufacturer's recommendation to clean them based on usage hours?