We've been using a 7337 tape library for about 8 months and have not had any
media type problems with them.  We have seen a few instances where a tape drive
does not eject a tape back to the library and that causes problems.  We are also
using our 7337 as a primary storage pool so it is used all the time.




"Wu, Jie" <JWu AT NCTR.FDA DOT GOV> on 06/04/99 10:05:23 AM

Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>

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cc:    (bcc: Ronald Heflin/Chicago/IBM)
Subject:  Re: reliability of DLT tape





hi all,
        we have an IBM 7337 DLT tape library and are using it as primary
stgpool. It has happened to us twice that the ADSM server complains about
media error on DLT tapes when we do space reclaimation. (of course, those
tapes has not been used for a while.). Presiously the two tapes have no
error.

My questions are:
        1) are DLT tapes reliable?
        2) do I need to excercise those tapes once a while?