RE: LTO backup drive failing?

More like 1000s.

Just like landing a plane, straight steady put on the breaks at the right
time.........

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
DrFranken
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 9:55 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: LTO backup drive failing?


Yes those pins can be an issue but I'm betting conservatively I've connected
and disconnected 500 SCSI cables. I can remember bent pins twice.

I'd say "It's in the wrist." :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 2/2/2015 8:19 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I unloaded a few LTO-1 drives on someone on this list quite some time ago.
They had a SCSI hookup. Doing an IOP reset was common enough that I
had the instructions typed up and taped to the drive.

Google is telling me that 3580-003 is LTO-3.

Careful pulling those cables to check the pins!!!!
I had a LTO-3 SCSI drive that we used to share the hard way.
Unpulling the cable and reattaching it. Since we only used it once a
quarter it was no big deal. However a pin got bent just about every
time. Trust me, IBM figured out pretty quick what was going on. I
ended up putting the full court press on the boss for another drive
and told him I wasn't moving that cable again.
I had so much trouble with those I was so grateful when we finally got
rid of the cards, cables and drives and replaced them all with fiber
cards, fiber cables, SAN Switch and fiber drives. It was getting to
the point that we couldn't get through a quarterly backup without IBM
on site replacing at least one drive. Which, of course, could only be
found in a mountain side monastery in Outer Mongolia.

Rob Berendt

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