We have DLT7000's in an STK9710.
We got the DLT7000's last May, and had lots of problems with them due to the
Quantum microcode.
Since we got up to V55 level of the microcode, all those problems have
pretty much gone away.
We have run pretty clean the last 4 months.


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Wanda Prather
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
443-778-8769
wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu

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> From:         Steven Bridge[SMTP:ccaasub AT ucl.ac DOT uk]
> Sent:         Thursday, April 02, 1998 7:50 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Subject:      Choosing a medium-sized DLT tape library
>
> We are about to put up ADSM v3 on an RS/6000 F40 running AIX 4.3 and
> are currently considering our choice of tape library.
> It is likely to be a 2 DLT7000 drive model with between 40 and 100 slots.
>
> I would prefer to use a library that existing ADSM users already have
> experience with. Therefore I would be interested in anyone admitting
> to the use of one of the following :
>  StorageTek 9714
>  ATL 520 series library
>  ATL 7100 series library ( recently added to the supported devices list I
> see )
>
> Of particular interest would be any users in the UK with experience of
> hardware support & maintenance for these models.
>
> Also, last summer there was discussion on this list concerning the
> unreliability of DLT7000 drives. Are these problems still persisting or
> have they been sorted out by subsequent firmware revisions ?
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
>  Steven Bridge     Systems Group, Information Systems, EISD
>                           University College London
>  email: s.bridge AT ucl.ac DOT uk                   tel: +44 171-504 2794
>