Is anyone monitoring the drive internal logs or looking at them.  It sounds
like the drive pressure is out of alignment in all the drives.  This could
be because the CE you have has no idea what they are doing.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Martina Sawatzki [mailto:msa AT OERAG DOT DE]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 6:30 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 3590 Tape Drives


We have all four drives chewing up tapes on  regular intervals. To make a
rough estimate I would say that this happens  once or sometimes twice  a
month and all drives are effected in the same way. I have no idea if this is
the normal wear  due to lots of mounts. We always check out the tape which
caused the problem and in most cases we have a technician change parts of
the drive or even the whole drive. The age of our tapes is different. We
exchanged a lot of them to new ones, but also still  have  tapes which are
3, maybe 4 years old.