Recommended to use the Automatic Cleaning method. It's in the Planning and Operator guides of both the 3583 and 3584.
Cheers, Suad -- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 22/12/2006 02:14:32 PM: > Those of you who have the IBM 3584 tape libraries - please weigh in on > pros/cons of using either the Automatic Cleaning method of the host > library or the Tape cleaning management method of the TSM server. We are > configuring two 3584's to replace our four 3583 libraries. Our > environment is TSM 5.3x server on AIX 5.3 with LTO2 drives and LTO2 tapes > in the libraries with each library configured as it's own single > partition.
