Did they by chance come pre-labeled?  This happened to us once -
pre-labeled tapes came labeled wrong and we had to relabel them.

Rick






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As I understood the explanation when we had a similar problem, those
volumes labeled on the E05 would write at that density.  If I understood
correctly, what you see looks normal.
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Sheppard,
Sam [SSheppard AT SDDPC DOT ORG]
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These were labeled in the only drive type we have, TS1120 (3592-E05).

Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668

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Fred Johanson
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Which drive wrote the initial label?
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Sheppard,
Sam [SSheppard AT SDDPC DOT ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 1:20 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] 3592JB tapes

We have just purchased a bunch of 3592JB tapes (700GB uncompressed
capacity) to use for some large NDMP backups. My first test last night
backing up around 1.8TB of data completely filled two of these tapes. This
is only marginally better than what I was getting on the 3592JA tapes which
are rated at 300GB uncompressed.  We have 8 TS1120 (3592-E05) drives in a
3494 library and are running TSM 6.1.3.4.  The device class specifies
FORMAT=DRIVE which should cause recording at the highest available density.
I would think almost all of this data would fit on one of these volumes.
Any ideas where I am going wrong?

Thanks
Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668


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