On Dec 29, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Marco Poli wrote:

> I am having a rather unpleasant experience... I am trying to get  
> bacula working with a QUANTUM DLT8000 tape drive that, besides being  
> an old drive model, is a brand-new device, with only some hours of  
> uptime right now (box was originally opened by me for this specific  
> application).


FWIW, and my apologies for not posting anything that will directly  
help you.

When I moved from DDS to DLT a few years ago, I bought several *used*  
DLT drives, both 7000 and 8000.  Perhaps it was my batch of drives,  
but I was unable to get reliable high quality results from any of the  
DLT 8000 drives.    But the DLT 7000 have proven to be a good  
investment and I would buy more if the current drives die.

However:

I do not recall if I was getting the errors you are seeing.

AND:

I do agree that high quality cables and terminators are required.   
Watch for any bent pins on the connectors too.

-- 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/




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