Tape drive model characteristics

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• 5755 tape drive cleaning procedures

  5755 tape cleaning procedures   Use the procedure in this topic to perform this task.   Clean the device whenever the Fault status light comes on or a system I/O error related to the device occurs. Attention: Use only the recommended cleaning ...

• Reviewing tape media statistics (method #2)

  There are statistics kept for each tape ever saved on your AS/400.  Below are the steps to see what the errors are, so that you will know when a particular tape might be “going bad”.  The system service tools are used, and a userid and password are ...

• Reviewing service log for iSeries tape write errors

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• Tape Part Numbers (dated)

  IBM P/N is 24R1922 for the cartridge - Ultrium 3 LTO 3580 tape drive   IBM P/N is 19P4209 for the 30GB tapes   8MM cleaning cartridge is 35L1409 (old IBM PN was 59H2898)   IBM PN for 20 GB 8mm tapes is 59H2678