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тАО09-01-2014 02:53 PM
тАО09-01-2014 02:53 PM
Autoloader 1/8 G2 requests cleaning tape every time
Hello, we have this hardware working for 3 years without problems
HP Proliant 570 G3
HP Autoloader 1/8 G2 with LTO3 drive
SCSI connection to a dedicated (and supported) HBA in the server
NTBACKUP as backup software
Lattest firmware (for drive an autoloader)
Lattest drivers (for windows 2003 -physical, no virtual machine!!!)
6 months ago the library begins to request cleaning tape every 2 or 3 weeks. We insert a cleaning tape and all were fine.
Then every week.
Then every 2 days.
Then every day.
Now we insert a new blank tape, and when we write on it, the drive requests clean, so we clean the drive, put a blank tape, and drive becomes dirty again.
And this is the problem: can't use the drive because it requests cleaning every time
We tested with 5 different universal cleaning tapes and same thing happens.
I attached support information generated with LTT.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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тАО09-03-2014 11:55 AM
тАО09-03-2014 11:55 AM
Re: Autoloader 1/8 G2 requests cleaning tape every time
Will check the log when I'm online on my pc.
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тАО09-03-2014 11:57 AM
тАО09-03-2014 11:57 AM
Re: Autoloader 1/8 G2 requests cleaning tape every time
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тАО09-04-2014 12:51 PM
тАО09-04-2014 12:51 PM
Re: Autoloader 1/8 G2 requests cleaning tape every time
The LTO drives are self cleaning drives and as mentioned in an earlier post on this thread, drive asking for multiple cleaning, it generally means that the drive is dead. I had a look at the logs and I am pretty sure that it would need replacement.
Regards
Rajat Bhargava
Star me if this answers your question
Rajat_B
I am an HPE Employee