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On Thursday, 25.11.2004 at 14:22 +0100, Andreas Haumer wrote:

> [...]
> 
> The situation quickly became worse and at some point the tape drive
> refused to eject the tape cartridge. We called the HP support and they
> replaced the drive without problems. With the new drive, the nightly
> backup again started to work fine.
> 
> After about 2 weeks, the same errors occured again. The nightly backup
> runs began to fail up to the point where the drive refused to eject
> the cartridge. So, HP replaced the drive again and we started to use
> our third drive in about 7 months of usage.
> 
> [...]

Interesting.  Same thing happened to us with a Tandberg DLT1 vs80 drive,
which I believe is fundamentally the same as the HP model.

Same symptoms as the above, but we've only had one 'dead' drive.  I
assumed it was Just One Of Those Things.  The first drive lasted for
about 12 months and the second has been going fine for about 10 months
so far.

Dave.

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Dave Ewart
Dave.Ewart AT cancer.org DOT uk
Computing Manager, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford
Cancer Research UK
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