> From: "Scott T. Harder" <scott.har...@embarqmail.com> > All I know is that many of the replies to the OP were in the "no errors at > all... what are you talking about?" camp, and my memory as an MCO in a > growth shop from 1987-1994 (about... until I finally made it to Technical > Services and Storage Management for 10 months, before moving to system > automation support until my resignation from this large telco in mid-1997) > was that we did, indeed, receive DCK errors on 3480 media more times than I > would like to have seen happen. Of course, some errors were due to hardware > problems, but we definitely had our share of true data check (media) errors. > Subsequent posts indicate the cause to be some sort of manufacturing issue > with BASF tapes (that I *know* we used); as well as Imation tapes (that I > *know* we used). So, I can only attribute our particular issues at the time > to those problems (not knowing any better, really). > > My memory is not wonderful, but I do remember these occurrences. I really > just wanted to convey my experience, which seemed to be so contrary to what > most other posters to the thread were saying.
Hi Scott, seeing as that your experience is different than 1% failure rate reported most posters, I am interested in an estimate of what kinds of error rates you saw. Were you seeing the 15-50% referenced in the article? Or rather just something in excess of the 1% being reported? I definitely saw many media errors, but in the scheme of the tens of thousands of tapes being passed, it was certainly below 1%. Of course that didn't help much when you took a tape error in the middle of a hundred reel file, and had to explain to the programmer once again the importance of making their two day jobs restartable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
