I'm a little late, but we also have an HP 20/700 with 8 LTOs running on
Windows 2000 in an SSO environment. We experienced quite a lot of problems
with the HP unit. Eventually, we got them worked out but it took Veritas,
HP, and StorageTek (SAN/Bridges) to work together. It was very painful to
that point, but once that was resolved, it was ok. The issue was a
configuration and firmware issue with the drives and bridges.
Then we later experienced a flaky bridge that caused us trouble
(intermittent down drives, etc) for about 3 months until it was replaced.
The drives seem great, except that we have had about 4 or 5 of them have
gotten a tape physically stuck in the drive, which destroys the tape and
requires the drive to be replaced.
I have one other issue and that's with HPs support. I think if they had the
knowledge one year ago, we wouldn't have gone through so much pain. I think
they are better now, but if I had to decide over again, I'd probably go with
an STK unit (or another one altogether) as the STK support for our SAN and
the bridges is outstanding.
Rusty Major, MCSA
Information Services
Texas Children's Hospital
(832) 824-4125
-----Original Message-----
From: Wilhelm, Patrick [mailto:pawilhelm AT davidson DOT edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:53 PM
To: Scott Macdonald; dayalsd AT lycos DOT com;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] LTO drives
We have 4 HP's in an HP skinned 20/700 and experienced pain as well. After
the same 8 month period, we are now starting to see the stability we had
hoped for. We have NT and HP-UX media servers sharing the drives in a SAN
environment. Many of our problems came from our fiber, and FC/SCSI bridges,
but within NB the errors were always reported as a non-descript (84) media
write error.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Macdonald [mailto:smacdonald AT askjeeves DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:42 PM
To: 'dayalsd AT lycos DOT com'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] LTO drives
we have 8 of the IBM's in servers and have had nothing but trouble the
robot's are from ADIC and they have always been quick to fix any issues
but still I generally have at least one drive down with either a hard write
or read error. it does seem as if the issues are starting to be resolved
but it took 8 month (I guess that what I get for being an early adopter)
-----Original Message-----
From: dayal singh [mailto:dayalsd AT lycos DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:15 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO drives
NBU Gurus,
We are in the process of evaluating LTO drives and we are
looking at HP/IBM vendors. Any good/bad experiances ?
Appreciate y'r response.
TIA
Dayal
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