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On Thursday, 25.11.2004 at 13:57 +0000, Martin Hepworth 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.
> >
> >- -- 
> >Dave Ewart
> 
> And here - seems to be heat related. Of the drives that have died 
> (2xDLT1's and 1x VS80 all HP), have died on hot days in not temp 
> controlled rooms.

Hmmm - curious.  My notes show that our drive keeled over in May (not 10
months ago, as I said above), although it did survive the hot summer of
2003 :-)

Perhaps I should move ours into the air-conditioned room ...

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