On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:06:17 -0500, George Sinclair
<George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV> wrote:

>Thanks! We are indeed using Seagate drives. The media is from Imation,
>but we did not specifically request Imation. We received this media,
>along with the tape library, on the same purchase. We bought everything
>together. This was the media the third-party company delivered with the
>unit. We did not buy the library directly from Storagetek, though. Maybe
>if we had, we would have received media from a different company -- one
>that Storagetek recommends. I've not heard about any manufacturers,
>though, that Storagetek does not recommend. Will look into it. Has this
>problem occurred only on the Seagates?

I'm not knocking Seagate drives, they do work a treat with compatible media.
However I have seen serious problems when using them with 3 different brands
of tape (which I am not going to list here). Seagate's website recommends
primarily Seagate tapes (not surprisingly) and secondarily two other brands,
M***ll and F**i. STK will also give you these two brands as a
recommendation, but you may need to dig a little to find this out. I am not
surprised if the reseller did not not know about this.

IBM drives seem to be more tolerant and indeed I have seen them work
faultlessly with the same tapes that previously gave errors on Seagate
drives. I have no experience of HP drives.

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