Hot Diggety! Joshua Bassi was rumored to have written: > > Does anybody know offhand the estimated number of cleanings an IBM LTO > cleaning cartridge supports before it should be disposed of? Thanks in > advance.
Exactly 50. ;) It's got a built-in counter on the tape, and the IBM libraries will report this via front panel LCD (at least, on the 3584, it does). I believe it returns an error if you try to use it a 51st time, from my recollection of the manual, but don't hold me to that. -Dan