Re: nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library,

2011-04-07 Thread Prather, Wanda
pril 08, 2011 12:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library, I'll try to answer your questions but there were a lot! The drives in both libraries are IBM LTO4 drives. Both libraries currently have different version library code although the fa

Re: nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library,

2011-04-07 Thread Dury, John C.
I'll try to answer your questions but there were a lot! The drives in both libraries are IBM LTO4 drives. Both libraries currently have different version library code although the faulty library has been upgraded several times to different versions as they were available, and the problem still o

Re: nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library

2011-04-06 Thread Skylar Thompson
On 04/ 6/11 08:43 AM, Thomas Denier wrote: -John Drury wrote: - My questions to all of you is not so much what could be wrong (although if you have ideas, that would be great also), but, we are considering a new robot and are hoping to be able to use or reuse our existing LTO4 tapes. Ri

Re: nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas Denier
-John Drury wrote: - >My questions to all of you is not so much what could be wrong >(although if you have ideas, that would be great also), but, we are >considering a new robot and are hoping to be able to use or reuse our >existing LTO4 tapes. Right now it has about 80 scratches so if we

Re: nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library

2011-04-05 Thread Skylar Thompson
We have two SL3000s (one all LTO4 and one all LTO5) and have had some issues with the older one, but none with the newer one. After talking with a Sun (or was it Oracle?) engineer, it appeared that there were some firmware bugs with the HP LTO4 drives that caused them to be overly sensitive to medi

Re: nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Diven
What have people done regarding Open Systems VTL's? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 7:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] nightmares with a STK SL500 tape li

Re: nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library

2011-04-05 Thread David Longo
I've never working with this library, but have some questions/ideas. 1. Are both libraries "identical" and do they have same firmware for library and drives? How about configuration on the library? 2. They are both connected to same TSM server you say. Do they use the same HBA's on the TSM s

Re: nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library

2011-04-05 Thread Dan Olson
ril 5, 2011 5:10:47 PM Subject: [ADSM-L] nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library We purchased an STK SL500 tape library with 4 LTO4 drives in it a few years ago and we have had nothing but problems with it, almost from the beginning. It is fully loaded with LTO4 cartridges (about 160) and see

Re: nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library

2011-04-05 Thread Prather, Wanda
What brand of LTO4 drives are in your STK library? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dury, John C. Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 6:11 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library We

nightmares with a STK SL500 tape library

2011-04-05 Thread Dury, John C.
We purchased an STK SL500 tape library with 4 LTO4 drives in it a few years ago and we have had nothing but problems with it, almost from the beginning. It is fully loaded with LTO4 cartridges (about 160) and seems to randomly just crash and take all of the drives offline to TSM. We also have a