-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 25.11.2004 at 13:57 +0000, Martin Hepworth wrote:
> >>The situation quickly became worse and at some point the tape drive > >>refused to eject the tape cartridge. We called the HP support and > >>they replaced the drive without problems. With the new drive, the > >>nightly backup again started to work fine. > >> > >>After about 2 weeks, the same errors occured again. The nightly > >>backup runs began to fail up to the point where the drive refused to > >>eject the cartridge. So, HP replaced the drive again and we started > >>to use our third drive in about 7 months of usage. > > > >Interesting. Same thing happened to us with a Tandberg DLT1 vs80 > >drive, which I believe is fundamentally the same as the HP model. > > > >Same symptoms as the above, but we've only had one 'dead' drive. I > >assumed it was Just One Of Those Things. The first drive lasted for > >about 12 months and the second has been going fine for about 10 > >months so far. > > > >Dave. > > > >- -- > >Dave Ewart > > And here - seems to be heat related. Of the drives that have died > (2xDLT1's and 1x VS80 all HP), have died on hot days in not temp > controlled rooms. Hmmm - curious. My notes show that our drive keeled over in May (not 10 months ago, as I said above), although it did survive the hot summer of 2003 :-) Perhaps I should move ours into the air-conditioned room ... Dave. - -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBpgqQbpQs/WlN43ARAr7aAJ4tgWfkz8NF1FuPvzdNblvwlRoRBQCg2Riz Ee+m536p36BvqAkDUkPdm+A= =8Kio -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
