I'll just add a note here
I just completed labeling and checking in 640 new 3590K tapes into a new
3494.
Every label operation reported an I/O error both in TSM and in the errpt on
AIX. However; the tapes were in fact labeled and checked in. I have used
some of them and there doesn't seem to be a problem. I don't like the fact
that I get the errors.
Knowing that others are experiencing similar difficulties is of some
comfort. However; I would like to know why the errors are being reported in
the first place.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: More on 3590K tape quality issues
When you all label theses tapes, do you use overwrite=yes? I had
occaisional problems with new tapes in 3575 library and when I started using
overwrite=yes, I had no further problems with labeling. I suspect that even
with new tapes there maybe "something" on the tape.
David B. Longo
System Administrator
Health First, Inc.
3300 Fiske Blvd.
Rockledge, FL 32955-4305
PH 321.434.5536
Pager 321.634.8230
Fax: 321.434.5525
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I second this issue. These puppies are a real problem to get
labeled. We have our IBM CE check that we had the latest and greatest
drivers installed (tape drive microcode, Atape drivers, atldd software), but
the problem persists.
In our case, we also seem to have a higher incidence of the 'K'
tapes logging an error and being marked as readonly. We change the tape back
to readw, and it continues to write and read the tape with no problems.
The new tapes just seem to be very sensitive, and throw up the panic
flag more often.
Ben Bullock
Unix system manager
Micron Technology Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 9:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: More on 3590K tape quality issues
>
>
> Postings from customers using 3590K tapes have, over the past months,
> noted problems which most conspicuously turn up when trying to label
> the tapes. I had the same problem of I/O errors on several tapes
> two months ago, in the labeling process. I persisted in performing
> the label operation on the problematic ones, and finally got them all
> labeled. Once labeled, no problems.
>
> Today I received a fresh shipment of 3590K tapes (IBM part
> number 05H3188)
> and labeled 70 of them. Three exhibited labeling problems,
> on different
> drives. I repeated the Label Libvolume on those three: two of
> them then
> successful, one failed. Repeated on the last tough one and
> it finally went
> through.
>
> Such is the current state of 3590K tape and drive harmony, at least at
> this site.
>
> Richard Sims, BU
>
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