Wow, that 's a pretty good record.  Wish I could say the same.  We have one
unit that has been in use since December of 97, and a new that has only been
in use for a couple of months.

We have had several device and media failures.  I have had to recover
several fairly new tapes from offsite copies, and have a stack of tapes that
I need to ship back to IBM (some with no tape inside).  We have had trouble
with the media changer, the drives, the door, and the I/O port.  Not lots,
but enough that I wouldn't brag about it being low maint.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Haddad [SMTP:thaddad AT COLUMBIAENERGYGROUP DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 3:44 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Why is MagStar so good -- it just is
>
> I have several 3570 devices with the oldest one in use since early 97 and
> up to
> now, no device or even media problems.
> (well except for that one new Magstar cartridge that was shipped to me
> with NO
> tape in it!...ooops)
> After using 8mm for some time, this is a big blessing for me (us).
> The improvement in data transfer rate has become most visible in the
> handling
> of large files (particularlydatabase support).
> We backup clients of NT (including Lotus Notes on NT ..full database
> backups),
> Netware and AIX.