make sure your cleaning volume mask is set properly... I think by default it is CLN999 I've set it to CLN*** do this all from the console on the ATL...
Dwight -----Original Message----- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3494 cleaning (2 nd. try) Hi Richard! Thank you very much for not ignoring me this time :-) The output from /usr/bin/mtlib -l $LMCP -vqK -s fffd: Performing Query Inventory Volume Count Data using /dev/lmcp0 Inventory Volume Count Data: sequence number......10143 number of volumes....0 category.............FFFD It looks like my library doesn't see the cleaning tape. About two weeks ago I saw the first cleaning errors in the AIX error log. I went to the library and I saw that the cleaning tape was ejected to the bulk I/O area. So I removed it from the library and I placed a new one in the bulk I/O area. The library picked it from there and placed it in an empty cell. I though that that was enough, but apparently not. Is there a special procedure for checking in a cleaner cartridge? Thanks again!!!!! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -----Original Message----- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 16:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3494 cleaning (2 nd. try) >I haven't received an answer yet, so I'll give it another try: We've simply been ignoring you. ;-) >In the IBM Redbook "IBM Magstar Tape Products Family: A Practical Guide" I >read the following line: > >For 3590 Magstar drives, use a value of 999 mounts to perform cleaning based >on drive request rather than library initiated. > >So I changed the value to 999, but nothing happens. Both drives are still >displaying *CLEAN. The library doesn't seem to pick up the drives cleaning >request. How can I make the library clean the drives? >Thanks in advance for any reply!!! Well, the first thing I would check is whether you have cleaning tapes in your library...that they have cycles left...that they have prefixes (like "CLN") matching the spec defined in the library, etc. # Get number of tapes: /usr/bin/mtlib -l $LMCP -vqK -s fffd # Get available cleaner cycles number: /usr/bin/mtlib -l $LMCP -qL No cleaning tapes = no cleaning. Available cycles is something we have to watch for, as it can deplete rather quietly. (Exhausted cleaning tapes may auto-eject, but operators may send them offsite. ;-) Richard Sims, BU ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **********************************************************************
