Greetings all,

We're currently using a 3494 with 3590E drives, and

I have accumulated several tape volumes with write errors = 1, and one with
write errors > 1.   Just wondering how I should determine if a  tape is
truly dead or "mostly-dead", and when a given error is ignorable or
workable?  Is the number of write errors a good indication?

(I've noticed that the errors are distributed across drives, so as not to
point to a single drive.  Also, all drives have been recently upgraded to
new microcode.)

Thanks much,
adam