Does anyone know of any issues related to cleaning errors reported by NetWorker 7.1.2 on Windows 2000 with IBM LTO Gen2 tape drives (fibre channel connected and in a STK L180 library)?
I intermittently get "\\.\Tape0 requires cleaning" error whenever I label (or re-label) the tape. This happens even if I change the tape cartridge or even use another tape drive to label. In fact, two successive label operations will sometimes yield success in the first label command, but generate the cleaning error on the second label operation (and vice versa). I believe that I do not have problems with my tape drives or tape cartridges.
I know that there is a similar issue with DLT drives with Windows 2000 where a patch from Microsoft for the dlttape.sys driver is needed. I cannot seem to find any similar issue with LTO Gen-2 drives.
Thanks in advance.
Robert Sio
I intermittently get "\\.\Tape0 requires cleaning" error whenever I label (or re-label) the tape. This happens even if I change the tape cartridge or even use another tape drive to label. In fact, two successive label operations will sometimes yield success in the first label command, but generate the cleaning error on the second label operation (and vice versa). I believe that I do not have problems with my tape drives or tape cartridges.
I know that there is a similar issue with DLT drives with Windows 2000 where a patch from Microsoft for the dlttape.sys driver is needed. I cannot seem to find any similar issue with LTO Gen-2 drives.
Thanks in advance.
Robert Sio
