Richard, The tape is a genuine IBM Cleaning cartridge that came with the library. Per the "Storwatch Specialist":
VOLID is CLNI81L1 and is in element address 1025 (3584-L32 library). Remaining Cleanings is 50. (I think that's the number of cleanings on these cartridges ?) Storwatch shows this as Cleaning Cartridge and that AutoClean is enabled. (I see another user this morning reported their tape has been used twice in a year and he pumps more data than me. That's the first person that I can remember that has reported an actual automatic use of an LTO cleaning cartridge.) Maybe thses drives/tapes are REAL clean already! David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax: 321.434.5509 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/24/03 08:48AM >>> >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 ############################################################## This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ##############################################################
