Stephen,
 Was there some kind of announcement from IBM about this? I just had a tape
drive replaced yesterday (LTO-1) because the tape was stuck (The changer
couldn't remove it but I could wiggle it and it came out). None of the IBM
people I talked to have told me about this. Do you know where the clip goes
and specifically what it fixes?

Thanks

Shawn

> From: Stephen Comiskey <stephen.comiskey AT NOTES.ROYALSUN DOT COM>
> Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:12:24 +0100
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Non-IBM LTO tapes in a 3584
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> Hi,
>
> As well as having the latest firmware, IBM have recently issued a small
> plastic clip for LTO1 drives.  We were having problems with tapes ejecting
> (both IBM and non-IBM) and this helped resolve it along with the firmware
> upgrade.
>
> cheers
> Stephen
> Dublin, Ireland
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> Hot Diggety! Shawn Price was rumored to have written:
>>  For what it's worth, my boss cheaped out and got some non IBM tapes for
>>  our 3584, and I've had nothing but problems with them. Mostly Imation
>>  and a few Emtecs. We are running the first generation LTO 1 drives, so
>>  there might be an issue with those as well. I have now gone in and just
>>  started pulling the tapes that have gone read-only more than twice and
>>  replaced them with IBMs.
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> Make sure your library and drives are at the latest firmware revision
> levels -- this is especially important since more recent firmware revs
> fixes bugs that causes problems with non-IBM tapes from what I hear.
>
> Latest 3584 library firmware you can get from IBM's web/ftp site: 3300
> if no D42 drives in library; else, 3060.
>
> To check firmware rev for library w/AIX: # lscfg -vl smc0 | grep FW
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> The library firmware rev # also appears on the main LCD panel screen.
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> Latest 3584 drive firmware you can get from IBM's web/ftp site: 36U3 for
> LTO-1 drives and 38D0 for LTO-2 drives.
>
> To check firmware rev for drive w/AIX: # lscfg -vl rmt0 | grep FW
> (...and for each drive... rmt1, rmt2, etc.)
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> -Dan
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