Andrew Prince <Andrew.Prince AT quantum DOT com> had this to say,
> The drives are not faulty, they just have swallowed leaders.
Yeah, I inspected the drives and sure enough, the leaders are
not there. They could be wrapped up, but it's hard to tell.
> Call Sun (assuming you have a service contract), and a Customer Service
> Engineer will be out fairly soon to fix them.
Called our rep. Thanks for the confirmation.
> Also, perform a Visual Mechanical Inspection (VMI) of all your media.
> Swallowed leaders are usually caused by media or someone pulling the tapes
> out of the drives before the leaders have unbuckled. Sometimes there is no
> discernable cause.
That's going to be tricky. Hard to know what tape was in which
drive. I'm going to go back through the daemon.log. Should be in
there, I think.
Thanks everyone for your responses,
deb
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