Hi guys. You need to know this!
DONT USE HP CLEANING TAPES ON IBM DRIVES. a LTO guru at IBM told me this. That they found out that ther is some other cemiclas on the cleaning tapes form HP than in the IBM tapes. therefore they say that you can destroy your drives by using HP cleaning tapes on IBM Lienar Tape Open drives. Kvedja/Regards Petur Eythorsson Taeknimadur/Technician IBM Certified Specialist - AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional Microsoft Certified System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 Borgartun 37 105 Iceland URL: http://www.nyherji.is -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tomas Hrouda Sent: 5. juni 2002 06:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO don't need clean up? Sure, my cleaning cartridge is labeled CLNI64L1 ... and it is in library inventory. My premise was using of TSM automated cleaning method with CLEANFREQ=ASNEEDED. This way I can track number of clenanings left on cartridge. In case of library-automated method (you mentioned Zlatko), can I track this parameter too? Will be CLENANINGSLEFT number lowered i my library volumes inventory? If not, can I use TSM-automated method anyway? Tom -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Zlatko Krastev/ACIT Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO don't need clean up? If you read carefully library maintenance manual you would find that library requires a cartridge with specific label (starting with CLNI, i.e. CLNI39 is the one I've used last week) and performs cleaning automatically. So set CLEANFREQ=NONE as Mark pointed. Those of you WITH 3584 may have overlooked that base frame is with 141-281 slots according to IBM Announcement but capacity is 14-28TB, not 14.1-28.1. This is again due to one slot occupied by cleaning cartridge for library automatic cleaning. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: LTO don't need clean up? Hi all, one of LTO 3583 (2 drives) we take care of still didn't clean drives. It is operate from january 2002 and there is about 10-20 GB daily data flow through each drive, 3-5 daily tape-mounts. Both drives are set to ASNEEDED cleaning frequency, but no clean occured from january (!!), no dirty drive signalized on display ... is it possible? LTO box is placed in climatized dust-free environment, but .....??? Has anyone some similar experience with LTO clean frequency? Tom
