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Re: [Networker] LTO Tapes being marked full prematurely

2003-10-08 11:12:41
Subject: Re: [Networker] LTO Tapes being marked full prematurely
From: "Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL)" <maarten.boot AT NL.COMPUWARE DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:10:53 +0200
My full tapes are all related to scsi resets on the bus on solaris,

as I am still in testing , I have decides to first run each drive individually
and then to combine  later

my resets seem to relate to to much activity on the bus on my E450 with
solaris 8 (all latest patches + st patch )

my 2 cents, maarten

On Wednesday 08 October 2003 17:04, you wrote:
> Is it me or are there quite a few people who keep having LTO-2 drive
> failures???  I have an ADIC Scalar i2000 with 6 LTO-2 drives and had 1 DOA,
> another failure about a week later.  Last night (almost 2 months later), I
> have 2 more dead drives.
>
> Do you think it's the ADIC library or the HP drives that are the problem
> (or both)?  I'd like to know who I should be venting to before I go off on
> both of them ;-)
>
> Phil.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rada Uspensky [mailto:ruspensky AT RA.ROCKWELL DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:38 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] LTO Tapes being marked full prematurely
>
>
> We had similar situation due to the tape drives malfunction.
> It started slowly but in a couple weeks we had hundred tapes marked full
> prematurely.
> Check the event log for the drive related errors and contact the vendor to
> fix or replace drives.
>
>
>
>
>
> Davina Treiber <Treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM>@LISTMAIL.TEMPLE.EDU> on 10/06/2003
> 04:22:39 PM
>
> Please respond to Legato NetWorker discussion
>        <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>; Please respond to Davina 
> Treiber
>        <Treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM>
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> Subject:    Re: [Networker] LTO Tapes being marked full prematurely
>
> Maine, Daniel wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > We are using Networker 7x on a Win2000 server.  It is attached to a
>
> STKL180
>
> > by SCSI.
> >
> > We are experiencing problems with the LTO tapes being marked "full"
>
> before
>
> > they have used it's allotted space.  Some are being marked "full' with
>
> only
>
> > 2g.
>
> What brand of drives and what brand of tapes?
>
> If they are Seagate drives, they will only work well with certain tape
> brands. Maxell/Fuji/Seagate are the only ones certain to work, although
> some others are Maxell or Fuji rebadged.
>
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