Our Tape drive been very consistent and work well.  Most of our tapes are
about 5 years old and still going strong.  We get maybe 4 bad tapes a year.
Tape drives been great.


David C. Pearson
IS Production Support Analyst
System & Network Service
Snohomish County PUD # 1
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Phone: 425.347.4420
Pager:  425.290.0944
FAX:     425.267.6380
E-mail: DCPearson AT snopud DOT com <mailto:DCPearson AT snopud DOT com>

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Martina Sawatzki [SMTP:msa AT OERAG DOT DE]
        Sent:   Thursday, November 21, 2002 3:30 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Re: 3590 Tape Drives

        We have all four drives chewing up tapes on  regular intervals. To
make a
        rough estimate I would say that this happens  once or sometimes
twice  a
        month and all drives are effected in the same way. I have no idea if
this
        is the normal wear  due to lots of mounts.
        We always check out the tape which caused the problem and in most
cases we
        have a technician change parts of the drive or even the whole drive.
        The age of our tapes is different. We exchanged a lot of them to new
ones,
        but also still  have  tapes which are 3, maybe 4 years old.