Re: 5010 tape drive question..

Ya, I'm suprised to hear what the CE is saying too.

We had TONS of 3590 cartridges and I would initialize 10 or so at a time 
(normally)
and I don't recall ever seeing the 3590 ask to be cleaned anymore than it 
normally
did (?)...

Chuck

Don wrote:

> Yo Dude!
>
> Yeah, this would kinda scare me in to thinking that SOMETHING is scrubbing
> the oxide from my mylar!  I'm not sure I buy your CE's reasoning right
> now...  If this were true, we should have gotten this kind of problem all
> along throughout the years....
>
> Don in DC....
>
> On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Mike Shaw wrote:
>
> > 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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