RE: TS3100 drive cleaning -- MIDRANGE-L

Let it clean when It thinks it has to. Since you're using LTO6, there may
be some microcode updates to the library and the drive, I suggest getting
the latest fixes on. It's two operations one for tape device and one for
the library.

You can manually clean it whenever you would like, either by using the GUI
to clean the drive or by mounting the cleaning cartridge.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Tsutomu Fukuda
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 10:20 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TS3100 drive cleaning

Thank you Paul/Jim/Jack.

We have the LTO 6 tape library in TS3100 as Paul say. There are 21 tapes
and one cleaning tape at slot #23.

The cleaning didn't run for 4month.(2018.1.1-2018.5.12)

We would like to do cleaning it automatically or manually every 3 or 4
months.

Kind Regards.

Tsutomu Fukuda. Japan.

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes the library will auto clean, however it must be set up to do so.
The number of tapes available must be set to 22 ( assuming a 24 tape
unit) one for the I/O door and one for the cleaning tape. The
cleaning tape must also be in the correct slot, 24, if I remember
correctly. Takes about two minutes in the GUI to set it up and it's
self evident how to with a little exploring.

We see about once every 50 or so tape operations, so about once a month.

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On May 14, 2018, at 9:07 PM, Jack Woehr
<jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

On a TS3100 if you merely move a cleaning tape to the drive, it does
it automatically.
And you can also tell the library through its web interface to clean
itself, and it looks for a cleaning tape in its magazine.

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 7:32 PM, PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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