Re: 5010 tape drive question..

["Mike Shaw" <mshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don,

I have seen this with 3590's as well....CE explained it as new cartridges
leaving a lot of residue and the end result being that cleanings are more
frequent as a result initially....Does make sense if you look at it in terms
of initializing the cartridges plus any save/restore activity...In our case,
it did get back to a more normal cleaning cycle once we got through the
initialization process.

If you are still uncomfortable, check the error log and the volume stats via
SST...If there are no perm or temp errors being logged, attribute it to the
new cartridges and just keep an eye on it.  It should decrease.

HTH,

Mike Shaw
-----Original Message-----
From: Don <dr2@access.digex.net>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, October 19, 1998 10:41 AM
Subject: 5010 tape drive question..


>
>
>Greetings,
>
>we've got a client with a 5010 tape drive and I'm getting ALOT of the
>"clean the tape drive" light coming on.  This is a new drive and new
>tapes.  Is there a known problem here or am I the only one having this
>scenerio??
>
>Don in DC
>
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