Re: dirty device

It sure can.  I have had the same problem.  I cleaned it with a cleaning 
tape.  It didn't help.  So I opened a brand new cleaning tape & it didnt 
help.  I ended up calling IBM.  They gave it a good cleaning and then it 
worked fine.  You can also get messages & delays like you are describing 
when your tape drive is about to kick the bucket.


>From: "Len Lester" <whylenny@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>Subject: dirty device
>Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 19:58:59 -0700
>
>We're having a problem with backup.  It normally takes 3 hours but last
>night it ran for 11 hours before it was cancelled.  There are informational
>messages on the operator's message queue about the tape drive needing to be
>cleaned but these appear every night.
>
>The tape drive is cleaned daily but after so many gigabytes of saved data,
>the dirty device messages seem to be inevitable.
>
>One theory is that the media itself may be dirty which makes the tape drive
>dirty.  This could explain the variation in elapsed time.
>
>Could the device getting dirty slow down the job that much?
>
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