I agree with previous answers, and I second to "envirinmental" note:
Is your environment fine? Stable temperature & humidity within allowed limits, no vibrations, dustless, pure sinus stable voltage mains? Evere tried another tape manufacturer? regards J.S. > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von Dennis Melburn W IT743 > Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 17:31 > An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Betreff: Normal # of failures on tape libraries > > Our sites use ADIC Scalar 1Ks as well as one ADIC 10K. The > Scalar 1Ks have 4 LTO1 drives in each and the 10K has 34 > LTO2 drives. We experience occasional failures on these > drives and have to replace them. > My question is, is it normal for a site that has alot of > drives to experience drive failures about every 1-1.5 months? > My manager is rather annoyed at the fact that it seems that > we are constantly replacing drives even though it doesn't > cause any downtime for our TSM servers while they are being > replaced. If this is a normal part of having tape libraries > then that is fine, but I don't have enough experience in this > field to say either way, so that is why I am asking all of you. > > > Mel Dennis > >