We have only been using 3590K's for about 3 years, but we see more bad tapes 
from the freshly added tapes than we see from all of the older tapes.  In 
general we see 1-2 tapes fail per month out of about 4,000 tapes.  We move 
about 40-60 tapes per day off-site, with 40-60 making the return trip.

Andy Huebner

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Our 3590K tapes have a 10 year warrenty.

>>> Bill_Rosette AT PAPAJOHNS DOT COM 03/30/05 9:58 AM >>>
Anybody out there know how long 3590 K series tapes last ( I assume in
years).  I am trying to figure if our recent batch of tape/drive errors
are
from tape drives and old tapes.  Seem to be older number tapes giving
the
errors,
Would appreciate any knowledge on the subject or direction of where to
find
the knowledge.

Thank You,
Bill Rosette
Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International
WWJD



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(from the Windows Administrator's Guide, page 201)

[When checking in a single volume into an automated library,] a REPLY
command is not required if you specify a wait time of zero using the
optional WAITTIME parameter on the CHECKIN LIBVOLUME command. The
default wait time is 60 minutes.

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