Re: TS3100 drive cleaning

I'm assuming you have LTO tape drives inside the library. Most of the
drive manufacturers recommend not cleaning the drives too often-- the
cleaning tapes are reputedly mildly abrasive, and using them too much is
not good for the tape heads!

We have a TS3310 library, and it (theoretically) cleans its own drives
when it thinks they need it. This supposes that you have loaded cleaning
tapes into the monster.

How long had your library been in use when you received the CPF3794
error? Evidently that's too long without a cleaning! Perhaps clean when
you've run about 2/3 as many tapes through the machine! I'd say no more
than once a month, depending on usage.

Does the 3100 have a GUI to review and control the library? Explore all
of the options to see if there's cleaning option, or a place to monitor the
drive status for errors or a 'clean me' message.

--Paul E Musselman





At 10:02 AM +0900 5/15/18, Tsutomu Fukuda wrote:

Hi.

We have been using the TS3100 tape library to backup the data every day.

We got the CPF3794 because the tape drive is dirty.

How often do you clean the tape on TS3100?

Do you clean it by auto or manual ?

We appreciate any advices.

Kind Regards.

Tsutomu Fukuda. / Japan.

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