>Interesting. I have had an IBM 3584 library with (8) LTO1 drives, FC attached >for over a year with no problem. Cleaning tape was installed initially and >autoclean turned on on the library. Tape has not been used yet!. I backup >nearly 700GB of data a day and make offsite copies. Don't do a lot of >restores. I started with 100 tapes in system and now have 220. > >I remember a thread some months ago - maybe a year about cleaning. Everybody >then commented that their cleaning tapes weren't getting used either.
Let's pursue some details to try to pin this down... - The cleaning tape is an LTO type, with a volser prefix of "CLNI" or "CLNU"? (Otherwise the library thinks of it as a data cartridge.) - It was inserted using the procedure as documented in the 3584 manual? - It resides in a normal data cell (not the Diagnostic Tape cell)? - You have verified that Auto Clean is (still) activated? If all of the above checks out, I would try following the manual's procedures for removing a cleaning cartridge, and then reintroduce it, watching particularly for a "Moving cleaning cartridge" message followed by "Insertion of Cleaning Cartridges has completed". Then re-check Auto Clean being active. Manually perform a Clean Drive operation to assure that the library understands the cleaning cartridge and that the function occurs. If still nadda, have your CE upgrade the library microcode, as appropriate; and the drives microcode, as they may be failing to signal that they need cleaning. Richard Sims, BU