Right... This is why I said that I did not do a good job of staying on point as far as the original post. Those numbers in the failure rates reported were *multitudes* higher than anything I have ever seen or heard of. Again, I only chimed in because of the subsequent posts that made it sound like DCK errors went away with the advent of the 3480.
All the best, Scott Scott T. Harder Mainframe Services, Inc. Naples, FL <snip> > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
