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steeve_p
Level 4
15 years ago

Trouble cleaning tape drive

 Hello, I am running Veritas 9.0 on Win 2000 Advanced server using a single DDS4 Compaq tape drive.  The drive is working properly because the data is being written to it fine.  My problem is I can no...
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    Marksw
    15 years ago
    That's fine if it's after 10-15 seconds, the clean has happened, just faster than I thought it would - I think it should be OK.
     
    I can't remember cleaning a DAT drive, these may be quite quick, just as long as it doesn't pop out the tape after about 1-2 seconds..
     
    Mark
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Marksw
Level 5
15 years ago
 There is no need to schedule a cleaning job on a stand alone drive - as all you need to do is put the cleaning tape in - and wait for it to eject.
The cleaning jobs is designed for autoloaders where you assign a slot as the cleaning slot/tape and when you schedule a cleaning job it will pick up the tape from this slot.
When you say eject immediately, how long is immediately - a cleaning tape should eject out in about 1-2 minutes or so.

Mark