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[Veritas-bu] Not reading bar codes very well

2004-08-13 11:36:19
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Not reading bar codes very well
From: ddunham AT taos DOT com (Darren Dunham)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:36:19 -0700 (PDT)
> Looking for suggestions...................................
> 
> We have a Sun-L1000 tape library.
> It has started having problems reading bar code labels.
> 
> When we execute an inventory (from the library, not via NetBackup), 25-30%
> of the tapes in the library
> are reported as "no barcode."
> 
> We then have to play games, manually moving tapes from slot-to-slot, or
> slot-to-load port, until
> the bar code is successfully read.

I'm not particularly familiar with that exact library, but it certainly
sounds like a hardware issue with the library itself.

Does the unit have any sort of periodic maintenance?  I had an old ATL
library that would start messing up barcodes about every 3 months.
Clean it and it was good again.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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