9 Months? That is truly amazing but is it typical? We have to clean our DDS
drives daily to keep them running. How frequently does the device complain
about bad tapes? I may switch after all.

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Brad Feazell

John Zoltak wrote in message ...
>The documentation for the DLT say only clean when the clean light is on.
>We've have a DLT library on an NT server for about 9 months and haven't
>had to clean yet. On the HP3000 we've had a DLT for 6 months and haven't
>had to clean yet.
>
>John Zoltak
>North American Mfg Co
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Lee [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 12:37 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [HP3000-L] cleaning DLT drives
>
>
>To those of you who use DLT drives-
>
>How often are you finding you need to clean them?  Thanks for any
>responses.
>
>John Lee
>Vaske Computer Solutions
>