Re: Cleaning a Qualstar 46120 library

2000-09-29 Thread Richard L. Rhodes
I can't speak for AIT-2, but I have 2 46120's with AIT-1 drives. Now, my libraries are 4+ years old (upgraded once from exabyte to ait1), but they do not have any ability to auto-clean drives. You need your bkup program to control this. As far as self cleaning, I found that if I didn't clean th

Re: Cleaning a Qualstar 46120 library

2000-09-29 Thread Richard Sims
>Just a side note: I thought the press releases for AIT-2 technology = >stated that these drives are self-cleaning. If this is true, why does = >Sony make cleaning tapes? >From www.sony.com/ait : Active Head Cleaner reduces need for cleaning tapes. In the event that contamination build-u

Cleaning a Qualstar 46120 library

2000-09-29 Thread Dean Winger
Can anyone help with this? I have a Qualstar 46120 tape library outfitted with four AIT-2 drives. I would like to set up a schedule for cleaning the drives. Any recommendations on how I should do this? I am using TSM 4.1.1 for Windows NT. I do not think that this library has the built in cap