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

>From an audio standpoint I know how abrasive cleaning tapes can wear down
heads on a tape deck.  I used to know a guy who used has 4-track
reel-to-real so much that he wore those down every couple of years just
from routine use.  At my former job they ran AS/400 cleaning tapes through
quite regularly.  Then again, they upgraded hardware often enough that it
probably wouldn't have been an issue.  If it had been there was always the
maintenance contract.  I think that we will look for a compromise somewhere
in between for our 3570.

Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
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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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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.

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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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