On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:10:45PM -0600, Rushforth, Tim wrote:

        [3584 TapeAlerts]
> But we too were getting too many of these useless errors so we decided
> to turn tape alert off and only use if we suspect a problem. (Perhaps we
> should leave tape alert on but not report on any of the errors ...)

Did the useless TapeAlerts mostly occur on a drive which was also used as a
control port? (They did here.)

You might want to look into the useless TapeAlert-problem, though. In my
case, when a bunch of silly TapeAlerts occured there was a small chance of
the LTO2 index becoming corrupt, resulting in bad performance with that
tape (but no I/O-errors), and genuine TapeAlerts on that volume from then
on. Not letting TSM report the TapeAlerts would only have masked the
problem, since no hard errors occured..

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Jurjen Oskam