Recently, we have been experiencing a high number of media errors (generally read
errors with some locate errors) on our 3584 LTO library. A recent query of the
volumes table shows that we have 37 tapes (out of 250) with read errors! We have had
IBM out to inspect the library and drives, and they report that everything is fine.
Is it normal to have this many errors? Could we have that many bad tapes? The tapes
are not rewritten very often (the data being stored is for a long term and is
generally very static). Has anyone else experienced these kind of media issues?
We are running TSM 4.2.2.13 on Win2K, the library is connected via LVD SCSI, and all
the firmware on the drives are up-to-date.
Thanks in advance.
Peter
Peter Ford
System Engineer
Stentor, Inc.
5000 Marina Blvd,
Brisbane, CA 94005-1811
Main Phone: 650-228-5555
Fax: 650 228-5566
http://www.stentor.com
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