I have a customer that is running 6 LTO-5 drives in a 3310 using IBM LTO5 media. They have had many issues with LTO5. In the past 6 months, they have replaced 4 drives mostly due to stuck tapes. Several engineering firmwares have been added, and they are now finally able to eject tapes more consistently.
I would say that this customer is not happy with the transition at this point (LTO3 previously). They run an HSM environment, and tapes getting stuck in the drives prevents restores of their HSM data. This makes unhappy doctors. I know that they sent at least 2 of their drives to IBM with a tape still stuck in it to perform diagnostics. I really have never seen anything like this in the 10+ years I've been doing TSM. If you have not upgraded to the latest firmware, make sure you do so. Gary Bowers Itrus Technologies On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:51 AM, Christian Svensson wrote:
Hi, Does anyone run LTO-5 libraries today? How are your experience of LTO-5? I have only installed one library and we got a lot of problem with does drives. Just wonder if that is only one timer or if many other also have problems with LTO-5 I don't care what TSM version you are running. Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Skype: cristie.christian.svensson Supported Platform for CPU2TSM:: http://www.cristie.se/cpu2tsm-supported-platforms
