System information

Rel. 7.0 and 8.0 Red Book for AIX

Cleaning Your Tape Drives

Intuit Eclipse Support recommends cleaning your tape drive at least once a month, or more

frequently if your system is located in a dusty environment. Cleaning cartridges are shipped with

your hardware.

Determining If Your Tape Drive Needs Cleaning

The system has three ways of indicating that a tape drive needs cleaning:

• The amber light on the lightning bolt symbol is flashing.

• The LED on the tape drive displays the message "Clean soon."

• A message similar to the following example displays on the console:

Tape drive usage for rmt0 has exceeded the recommended cleaning

interval without being cleaned. Use approved cleaning materials to

clean the tape drive.

If you have installed the Software Error Logging and Dump Service

Aids package, bos.sysmgt.serv_aid, then run the command below to

examine the error entry. Otherwise, move your system error log to

a machine that has this package installed, and run the command below.

errpt -a -l 34 -i <logfile>

Run diagnostics to determine the nature of the problem.