Re: [lopsa-tech] tapes getting old?

2011-03-04 Thread Andrew Hume
well, i've never had LTO-3 tapes, but i've written a few thousand LTO-2 and LTO-4s.without more details, i would venture that the drive is not working correctly.we just had a drive behaving oddly (premature EOT) and had a guy from Fujitsucome out to look at the media. he had a whizzy little machine

Re: [lopsa-tech] tapes getting old?

2011-03-04 Thread Kent C. Brodie
I have lto3's that have been written MANY times over 10,20+. no problems. Feels like a tape drive issue to me. Other possibility (cheaper to test) is the media brand... ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-

[lopsa-tech] tapes getting old?

2011-03-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
I have an LTO3 tape autoloader. It's been in production for about 3-4 years, but it's never been reliable. For the last 9 months or so, it's been so unreliable I've barely used it at all, but now I'm working hard to bring it back to life. Right now, I have a very repeatable behavior: I can w

Re: [lopsa-tech] Openfiler support - how good is it?

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan
On 03/03/11 15:37, Derek J. Balling wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Adam Levin wrote: >> Lefthand seems to be cool stuff and has a lot of functionality beyond a >> basic disk array, but we found it to be more expensive than average when we >> compared it to things like the IBM DS3400 and HP

Re: [lopsa-tech] Odd problem with sudo

2011-03-04 Thread Michael Gliwinski
On Wednesday 02 Mar 2011 19:25:08 Matt Lawrence wrote: > >> Oddly enough, I don't get any output or errors when I do "sudo -u ggs -i > >> ls". Looks like I need a different solution. > > > > Are there any files in ggs's home directory? And what is ggs's login > > shell set to? If the login shel