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[Veritas-bu] Seagate LTO Drives/Fuji Tapes

2003-05-29 15:15:17
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Seagate LTO Drives/Fuji Tapes
From: WTSmith AT maine DOT edu (Wayne T Smith)
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:15:17 -0400
Charles R Somogyi wrote, in part:
> 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?

We have NBU/DC 4.5 with an L700e, 4 Seagate LTO-1 drives and see almost 
no tape errors on our Fuji tapes ... no problems such as you have 
described.  Sorry!    cheers, wayne


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