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

We got tired of that rigamarole so we dumped our 3570's, went to 3590's 
and are now on 3582's.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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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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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
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> 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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