I've been searching the web, looking in archives, but no juju. We had the Quantum Guy out here and he fixed our 2 dlt8000 drives with swallowed tape leaders. Did a visual inspection, found no problem
Author: "Chad R. Larson" <clarson AT ELDOCOMP DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:13:12 -0700
Well, the DLT8000 User's Guide (downloadable from www.quantum.com) says the maximum rewind time is 120 seconds, and the maximum unload time from BOT is 21 seconds. So, I'd guess worse case would be c
Author: Thien Nguyen c6053 x5266 <ttnguyen AT EL.NEC DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:25:36 -0700
Hi Deb, I have a Quantum/ATL P3000 with 6 dlt8000 drives. I have to tweak several "sleep" parameters. Currently, here are the values: Eject sleep 60 Cleaning delay 60 Unloading sleep 60 Loading sleep
Thien Nguyen c6053 x5266 <ttnguyen AT el.nec DOT com> had this to say, In light of the discussion that these drives tend to be s-l-o-o-o-o-w, these values seem somewhat reasonable. The loading sleep
Hello Deb: We have 3 DLT8000 with ADIC auto-loader 32 slot. Two drive are using NDMP backup and the other is for local, nfs and node backup. Anyway, before we purchased NDMP back up. We set Eject-sle
Author: "Chad R. Larson" <clarson AT ELDOCOMP DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:22:18 -0700
The DLT7000 User's Manual claims the same maximum rewind time (120 seconds) as the DLT8000, but it is a bit faster on the unload from an already rewound tape (17 vs 21 seconds). That doesn't seem to