Oh! Well, that should be fun to validate. "This error message is to tell you we avoided the error of your drive getting too dirty."
And people wonder why I worry about so much. Thanks, David. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Ehresman,David E. <[email protected] > wrote: > My recollection is that when the 3584 was set up autoclean the drives, it > caused one or two entries in the errpt when it did a drive clean. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Nick Laflamme > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 11:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ADSM-L] 3584 ALMS and uncleaned drives > > After three years in a data center in which actual physical tapes were > forbidden, I'm now doing penance in a smaller data center using a > honest-to-god 3584 with ALMS. > > To my surprise, I'm seeing entries in an AIX 6.1 error report that some of > my tape drives need cleaning, and I'm finding corresponding ANR8914I > messages in my activity log. This makes me fear that the ALMS automated > cleaning isn't happening. (The first alternate proposal is that I'm > expecting too much.) > > If it matters, we're using 3592 drives, not LTO drives. Also, TSM 6.2 on > AIX 6.1. > > Is this a sign that we need to update our 3584 microcode? Is there some > interaction between the 3584 and AIX that prompts the 3584 to notify AIX > instead of just quietly cleaning the drive? > > (I'm so happy that DataDomain's 3584 emulation didn't strive to match these > nuances....) > > Nick >
