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From: tonyr@tekadg.adg.tek.com (Tony Rick)
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Subject: Re: Cleaning Exabyte tapes ??
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In article <8388@brazos.Rice.edu> faunt@cisco.com (Doug Faunt N6TQS 415-688-8269) writes:
>Exabyte included a cleaning cart with our new unit, and sells cleaning
>carts.  They reccomend cleaning fairly often, actually.  Don't have the
>figure to hand, though.

I talked to Exabyte some months ago about this.  They told me every thirty
days or 30 Gbytes (your mileage may vary).  They also told me that
cleaning was REQUIRED to keep the warranty in effect.  Anybody from Sun or
Exabyte care to respond?

Tony Rick
Tektronix, Inc.  Beaverton, OR USA
email:tekadg.adg.tek.com
voice:503-627-2942