Similarly, is there a practical limit on the number of mounts we
should be allowing before retiring a tape?  I've got incremental
tapes that never leave the library for which this will be an issue.

Ray Jackson, Lucent Technologies

RYAN ANDERSON wrote:
> 
> Do any of you have standards in place to determine how long a DLT tape
> is good for? I have several DLT IV tapes which are a couple years old,
> and admitedly I don't have a lot of problems with them, but I assume
> they're usefulness will decline; I just don't know when.
> 
> RCA
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