I'm surprised you don't get more of these errors. We get at least two or
three a day. Our service people tell us it is normal.
Jim Sporer
At 09:22 AM 12/11/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>We have an ibm h70 running aix 4.3.3 and TSM 3.7.3. It s hooked up to an ibm
>3494 with two magstar 3590 drives. A month ago we saw some tape drive needs
>cleaning messages in the aix error report. They repeated today..
>
>IDENTIFIER TIMESTAMP T C RESOURCE_NAME DESCRIPTION
>E507DCF9 1210101500 I H rmt1 TAPE DRIVE NEEDS CLEANING
>D1A1AE6F 1210101500 I H rmt1 TAPE SIM/MIM RECORD
>
>I m wondering if this is normal? To my knowledge the 3494 should be cleaning
>itself as it does have cleaning tapes and is all configured to do so
>automatically.
>
>Gerald Wichmann
>Systems Engineer
>Sansia System Solutions
>408-844-8893 work
>408-884-9801 fax
