> Hello,
>
> We've upgraded the 3590 drives in our
> 3494 to 3590E two months ago.
>
> For the last two months we get the following
> messages (sometimes several times a day):
>
> ANR8830E Internal 3590 drive diagnostics detect excessive
> media failures for volume 000524. Access mode is now set
> to "read-only".
>
> ANR8831W Because of media errors for volume 000524, data
> should be removed as soon as possible.
>
> We've reported this problem to IBM. Their response is that
> the tapes are 'old' and can't handle the new 256 track format.
> It is quite possible that this is true, but we have more than 50
> tape set to read-only and this number is growing steadily.
>
> Is there anyone else out there having this problem after
> upgrading to 3590E???
>
> Regards,
>
> Alexander
>
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> Alexander Verkooijen     SARA
> Systems Programmer       Academic Computing
> alexander AT sara DOT nl        Services Amsterdam
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