RE: The dreaded 3570 tape drive rears its ugly head once again

We have had a fair bit of trouble with these recently, kept getting media 
errors during overnight backups, tried cleaning each time the thing failed, 
(but too much can be as bad as too little so watch out there) so they renewed 
the reader heads. Seemed ok for a week or two then errors started again, now 
they replaced the motor drive last week (possibly it wasn't pushing the tape 
against the reader heads properly, can happen, so the IBM bloke said), I think 
it is a new body next, can't be much else to change, think I'll ask for go 
faster stripes on the side, see if that helps. :-)

Steve

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 4:45 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: The dreaded 3570 tape drive rears its ugly head once again


> For starters, can anyone provide a link to me to a manual for 
> a 3570 tape drive?  We've got the tape drive but I can't find 
> a manual for it.  From what I've read in the archives people 
> don't seem to be shouting praises about it from the rooftops 
> and I'm starting to grumble myself.  Our 3570 seems to be 
> experiencing a fair number of media errors lately and I want 
> to know if needs service or if it's a maintenance issue on 
> our part. 

I _had_ a 3570 (split config, defined as 2 drives) up until a few weeks ago.
Unfortunately I sent the manuals back to the BP along with the drive.

Once in a great while we would start getting media errors.  Even though
there is a cleaning cartridge inside that is supposed to automagically know
when to clean, when those media errors occurred, I did a cleaning through
the front panel.  That always helped. 

YMMV.

-- 
Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company.  Unless I say so.



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