Interesting.  We have been using DLT7000 drives and found that Fuji tapes
were much less reliable than Maxell tapes.  In fact, we have stopped using
Fuji tapes altogether.  We process about 7GB/week over 12 DLT7000 drives.  I
would recommend looking at the media error log and trying to determine if it
is a specific drive that is getting a majority of the errors.  If you are
getting stuck tapes, this almost always leads back to the drive, or in some
cases the library.


Ebon Nash

-----Original Message-----
From: Casey J Feskens [mailto:cfeskens AT willamette DOT edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:03 PM
To: Charles R Somogyi
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Seagate LTO Drives/Fuji Tapes


On Thu, 29 May 2003, Charles R Somogyi wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> We have installed a 3.4 DC Master (SUN V880 and L700 w/ 20
> Seagate LTO Gen1 drives using Fuji tapes). We have had excessive
> amounts of mangled tapes, stuck tapes and tape pins that are
> offset. We are at a recent drive firmware level but still
> experience these problems. We have never observed this amount of
> these problems with the DLT7000/8000 technology. Is anyone else
> having tape problems such as this? Is it tuning? Tape
> manufacturer? Drive Manufacturer?
> Any ideas? I know the manufacturers will just point the blame on
> one another.
>
I've been running Seagate Drives and Fuji media for almost 2 years
and haven't seen any problems.  Of course we're low volume (.5TB/week),
but I have had far fewer problems with Fuji than we did with Maxell
(lots of tapes frozen due to write errors).  Maybe you got a bad batch?

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Casey Feskens <cfeskens AT willamette DOT edu>
System Administrator/Network Svcs. Consultant
Willamette University, Salem, OR
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