Right now there's just one tape brand manufacturer, and I understand it
is maxell, then quantum takes them and puts their name on the tape.

I have also seen alot of stuck tapes, but only a few that actually
required the techs to open the drive and use a 9 volt battery to eject
the tape.  Often our stuck tapes are solved by turning power off to the
drive, and then back on, in which case the drive becomes responsive when
the unload button is pressed.  We seem to be experiencing a high rate of
bad media with superDlt.

robert


"Diaz, Gustavo" wrote:
> 
> We are using Quantum SDLT drives in our L180 library. Using Quantum tapes we
> seem to have a bunch that get stuck in the drive, dowing the drive. The tape
> loads but won't get any further, the scsi bus times out and NetBackup downs
> the drive. Does anybody have this problem? Are some tape brands better than
> others? Any ideas?
> 
> TIA,
> Gus Diaz
> 
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