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Re: How reliable are your 3590 K media

2002-01-10 09:16:21
Subject: Re: How reliable are your 3590 K media
From: "<James> <healy>" <James.Healy2 AT AXACS DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:13:16 -0500
I think I'll throw in my two cents here also,
When we first got our second batch of K tapes it seemed like we were having
a larger than normal amount of problems. Our first batch of tapes also had
come from IBM directly and we had no apparent problems with them. The
second batch came indirectly from Imation. According to my reseller and
other sources, this was a time when the K tapes were in very high demand
and Imation couldn't pump them out fast enough to meet the demand. So its
possible that quality control suffered a bit. I also experienced a problem
where Imation contacted me directly and asked me to send a batch of tapes
back to them because they had a problem with quality control. I sent them
back and really haven't experienced any problems.





"Richard L. Rhodes" <rhodesr AT firstenergycorp DOT com>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on
01/10/2002 04:02:10 AM

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Subject:  Re: How reliable are your 3590 K media


We have several thousand 3590K tapes.  In general we are very happy
with them.  Like you, we have experienced some problem with a few new
tapes, but no where near your 10% rate - more like less than 1%.
Once past the initial use, they are rock solid.

We just received another shippment of tapes.  THese tapes were
purchased straight from IBM.  THey were willing to beat (by a hair)
the best price from any other vendor, and, deliver them several weeks
faster.  It will be interesting to see if these tapes have the same
problems.

One suggestion - I believe there is a diagnostic utility built into
the 3590 drives.  You can put a tape in and have the drive check the
entire tape.  You could check your tapes this way, although it would
be a big job.  Also, with new tapes you might want to increase the
cleaning frequency on the drives until all the tapes have been used.

Rick

On 10 Jan 2002 at 11:20, PETER GRIFFIN wrote:

> We have recently installed two 3494 libraries utilising 3590 K media.
>
> I am experiencing media failures (I/O errors) for about 1 in 10 media
> when initializing with label libv. Some of the media does successfully
> initialize on the second or third attempt but this does not fill me with
> confidence.
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