Our 3494 library is connected to a SP2. We have 1400 3590's in fairly active
rotation since April of 1996 (hundreds of mounts a day) and have had one
media failure. The 3494 library was realigned more than once to have the
cartridges stay in their slots and we have had three or four tapes stuck in
a drive. Once freed they worked well. Compared to the problems I have had
with 8mm this record is very good.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Weeks, Debbie [SMTP:debbie AT admin.usf DOT edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 4:27 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> Subject:      Re: Why is MagStar so good -- it just is
>
> Wow, that 's a pretty good record.  Wish I could say the same.  We have
> one
> unit that has been in use since December of 97, and a new that has only
> been
> in use for a couple of months.
>
> We have had several device and media failures.  I have had to recover
> several fairly new tapes from offsite copies, and have a stack of tapes
> that
> I need to ship back to IBM (some with no tape inside).  We have had
> trouble
> with the media changer, the drives, the door, and the I/O port.  Not lots,
> but enough that I wouldn't brag about it being low maint.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Haddad [SMTP:thaddad AT COLUMBIAENERGYGROUP DOT COM]
> > Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 3:44 PM
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Re: Why is MagStar so good -- it just is
> >
> > I have several 3570 devices with the oldest one in use since early 97
> and
> > up to
> > now, no device or even media problems.
> > (well except for that one new Magstar cartridge that was shipped to me
> > with NO
> > tape in it!...ooops)
> > After using 8mm for some time, this is a big blessing for me (us).
> > The improvement in data transfer rate has become most visible in the
> > handling
> > of large files (particularlydatabase support).
> > We backup clients of NT (including Lotus Notes on NT ..full database
> > backups),
> > Netware and AIX.