These are TS1130 drives/3592 cartridges, which certainly appear to be cleaning more often than LTO3/4's do. We have the library set to autoclean, which means it inserts the cleaning cart only when the drives request a cleaning.
This lib has 4 drives, averaging about 1.5-2 TB migration, + 1.5-2 2 TB backup stgpool, + reclaims daily, ~2000 mounts a day. Using about 1 cleaning cart (50 cleans) a month. Don't know if that's a lot or a little, in terms of cleaning, for TS1130's. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Zajkowski Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 2:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Ejecting cleaning cartridges from the TS3500/3584 On 3/17/10 1:18 PM, "Prather, Wanda" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way to make the TS3500/3584 do that? ALMS is enabled, > multiple partitions, 3592 carts. I certainly don't have a robot that big, but in seven years we've only cleaned the drives a handful of times. Am I doing something wrong? Our field service guy suggested that we only clean them when absolutely necessary because repeated cleaning can cause the head to fail. --Jim
