Len Boyle wrote:

> Hello 
> 
> We are switching over from dlt 7000 drives to ibm lto gen 2 drives. 
> Our initial order of tape carts were of the IBM brand and have been working 
> very well. 
> 
> We are now looking at purchasing additional tape carts and the question from 
> purchasing is should we stay with the IBM brand carts or can we  use another 
> brand. 
> 
> So I ask of this group, have you seen an operational difference based on 
> which brand of lto tape carts that you have used?

We've used only Fuji and had several problems.  A few have disconnected at the
loader spindle, one actually had about 100' of tape pulled into the drive and
was shredded.  Several tapes seem to repeat "Media Write Errors".

I would stick with IBM, since it's working well for you.  We got the Fuji for
about $80/ea, when we bought the first 1000 tapes.

-- 
Dan