Re: Update on tape labelling problems

Steve-- from my experience, you are better off just sending the label
failures back.  We kept relabelling the Imations, and even though we got
most of them (eventually) labelled, they have been failing since then
(thankfully, no lost data).

lisa



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Hi all

You will recall my post of a week ago about errors labelling 3590 tapes.
Well, I've labelled 30 IBM and 80 Imation tapes.
All 30 IBM tapes labelled flawlessly.
The Imations had a failure rate of 1 in 4, and in one batch of 10 I had
four consecutive failures.
Of those Imation tapes that labelled first time, only a couple have been
used, but one of those had a write error at 7% full.
I haven't tried relabelling the failures yet, so I don't know how sucessful
this will be.  When you consider the cost of my babysitting the label
process,
(surprisingly the whole label process fails if one tape has an error and
volrange was specified), the Imations look like a false bargain.

Steve Harris
AIX and TSM Admin
Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia






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