Hello Walther.
Try Networker 6.1.2 - that handles the cleaning bit much better...
We met the same problem in one of our installations.
Michael
Charles Walther schrieb:
> NW 6.1.1 for W2K on Proliant DL580
>
> Two Problems:
> Our Exabyte690d autoloader has a problem where it tries to load a tape into
> our DLT7000 drive and the drive light goes dirty. Legato usually unloads
> the tape, then loads the cleaning cartridge before it tries to use the drive
> again. This happens multiple times per night. We go through a cleaning
> cartridge every couple of days. We have several hundred DLT-IV cartridges
> that Legato can't seem to handle, but when we take them to a standalone DLT7
> or 8000, they work just fine, on load the drive light goes dirty, but then
> clears itself. This happens when trying to label, or when a group calls
> for a mount. We've replaced the exabyte, we've replaced the SCSI cables,
> but it appears that it's the way that Legato handles the load process -
> something is definitely different in 6.x from 5.x, or something is different
> in NT 2K from NT 4.0. We have d/l'ed MS hotfixes for the DLT handling, but
> this did not help. We have tried various DLT drivers, but we are stuck.
> Please help.
>
> Problem #2:
> Occasionally, Legato tries to unload, it starts issueing:
> \\.\Tapex Requires cleaning
>
> messages at the rate of 2-5 per second
>
> The drive tries to unload, but is not successful, therefore the messages
> just keep pooring out by the boatload. This loop goes on until we manually
> eject, or the SAVEGROUP is stopped.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this problem ? This started when we upgraded
> from NT 4.0, Legato 5.5.1 to Win2K and Legato 6.1.1.
>
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