Hello,

we see exactly the same problems and are realy very dissatiesfied!
Those drives had been told us to be comaptible with the 3590!!!!
Now we have problems to read our old tapes. Forget archive with
IBM tapes.

H.G.Borrmann
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>
> Dears,
>
> upgrade done 2 days ago, with the following packages:
>
>         atldd: 4.0.7
>         Atape: 5.0.2
>         3494 Library Manager Code: 521.17
>
> everything apparently was fine. But the next night 20 cartridges had I/O
> errors and were set in ReadOnly access mode. Last night other 22, today 6
> ... The errpt report "BAD MEDIA" and Atape sometimes crash dump!
>
> +++
> Description
> TAPE OPERATION ERROR
>
> Probable Causes
> TAPE
>
> User Causes
> MEDIA DEFECTIVE
> DIRTY READ/WRITE HEAD
>
>         Recommended Actions
>         FOR REMOVABLE MEDIA, CHANGE MEDIA AND RETRY
>         PERFORM PROBLEM DETERMINATION PROCEDURES
> ---
>
> IBM technicians say that, it might be related to the fact that those
> tapes were written at 128 tracks before (never had an error in 10 months
> before!).
>
> AUDIT VOLUME on those cartridges reports NO Errors!
>
> Did anybody of you experience such problem?
> Am I using a too recent Atape code?
>
> Thank you
>
> Mauro, STM