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Re: [ADSM-L] Tape batch failures

2009-01-29 22:07:22
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tape batch failures
From: Skylar Thompson <skylar2 AT U.WASHINGTON DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:06:22 -0800
Richard Sims wrote:
> Put problem tapes through tapeutil or similar exercising to get them
> worked in, and evaluated.  New tapes can be surprisingly troublesome:
> I've had a bunch of problems with new IBM 3592 tapes.  Frustrating
> waste of customer time.
>
>    Richard Sims
Do you offline one of your TSM drives to do that, or do you have a
dedicated drive? My back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that we'd be
spending about 10 drive-days a month breaking in new tapes. In light of
our recent fiasco, that might be worth it though. What would be really
nice would be TSM doing this on its own. Maybe in TSM 6.2? ;)

--
-- Skylar Thompson (skylar2 AT u.washington DOT edu)
-- Systems Administrator, Genome Sciences Department
-- University of Washington, School of Medicine

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