When we first install our first 3584 three years ago, we bought around
200 Imation LTO2 tapes. They lasted about a month and we also RMA'd
them all...
We've been on Maxell's for the last three years with maybe 10 tapes,
at the most, that have been bad from hundreds of tapes. (And we're not
sure it was the tape that was bad, but maybe a bad drive causing it to
fail.) We have a volume of about 1.2TB/day.
We've heard several similar stories as ours. But, another local company
uses Imation in their 3584 (although 3494, not LTO2) with no problems.
Troy Barnhart, Sr. Systems Programmer
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Regional Health, Inc.
353 Fairmont Boulevard
Rapid City, South Dakota 57701
PH: 605-716-8352 / FAX: 605-716-8302
-Original Message-
From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 7:04 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ADSM-L] Follow-up on: Problems with Imation ultrium-2 (LTO-2) tapes?
Just for what it's worth - an observation.
I run about 2.4 TB of data through my 3584 on a daily process, between
archives,
backups, and off-site copies. I've had the same 4 cleaning tapes in place since
my first 3584, with LTO-1 drives, just over 5 years now - and one tape has had
a count of 11 uses. All from early days, using the tape to verify drives after
maintenance. The count is now at 35; I've done 24 cleaning cycles this week on
16 drives. I have an RMA number.
Tom
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Is there any particular firmware I should be running in my IBM drives to work
with Imation tapes? We've been running Fuji and IBM with no issues for years,
but we put a group of new Imation tapes in Friday - and I've had write errors
on 4 of them so far, and a read error on one that caused the drive to go
not-ready
to the point it won't soft-reset. I am back-level on drive firmware (I don't
usually fix anything that's working) so I thought I'd check that before I get
an RMA from the vendor for the tapes.
TIA
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO Inc.
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