Have you considered where you store the tapes? Anything magnetic near the tapes will cause tape problems. This could be UPS or monitor or even disk sub systems can all cause problems if tapes remain close for some time.
sal > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Peter Ford > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 5:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: faulty media > > > Recently, we have been experiencing a high number of media errors (generally read >errors with some locate errors) on our > 3584 LTO library. A recent query of the volumes table shows that we have 37 tapes >(out of 250) with read errors! We > have had IBM out to inspect the library and drives, and they report that everything >is fine. Is it normal to have this > many errors? Could we have that many bad tapes? The tapes are not rewritten very >often (the data being stored is for a > long term and is generally very static). Has anyone else experienced these kind of >media issues? > > We are running TSM 4.2.2.13 on Win2K, the library is connected via LVD SCSI, and all >the firmware on the drives are up-to-date. > > Thanks in advance. > Peter > > Peter Ford > System Engineer > > > Stentor, Inc. > 5000 Marina Blvd, > Brisbane, CA 94005-1811 > Main Phone: 650-228-5555 > Fax: 650 228-5566 > http://www.stentor.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
