SL3000/SL8500 - How Does Cleaning Work for Media Validation Pool Drives in SL8500 and SL3000 Libraries

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Solution 2136609.1 : SL3000/SL8500 - How Does Cleaning Work for Media Validation Pool Drives in SL8500 and SL3000 Libraries

Applies to:

Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System - Version All Versions and later
Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System - Version All Versions and later
Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive - Version All Versions and later
StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

How auto cleaning works for media validation drives in SL8500 or SL3000 libraries.

Details

Media validation drives are cleaned by the library, not by the host.

Media validation requires a designated pool of T10000C or T10000D type tape drives. Up to 10 drives can be placed in the media validation pool using SLConsole. The drives in the pool are not available to host applications, such as ACSLS or ELS. The pool is not considered a partition and does not contain cartridges. This is why the host cannot perform the cleaning for the MV drives.

Drives in the media validation pool are automatically cleaned by the library. This occurs regardless of the auto clean status for the entire library or for partitions in the library.

Customer or Oracle field engineer should ensure there are cleaning cartridges in the reserved system slots for auto-cleaning of the drives in the media validation pool.

If the library is a complex, you need to have cleaning tapes in each library, where you have MV drives configured.

For importing cleaning tapes to system cells, see: SL3000 - How to Enter Cleaning Cartridges into Library When Drives are Requesting to Be Cleaned (Doc ID 2087875.1)

References

<NOTE:2087875.1> - SL3000 - How to Enter Cleaning Cartridges into Library When Drives are Requesting to Be Cleaned

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