Re: 5010 tape drive question..

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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