Re: Cranky LTO tape drive -- MIDRANGE-L

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One thought: since its development only,use RDi and keep all your source on your PC. Your basic test data doesn't really change anyway, right? So what if you lose your sandbox data?

On 12/28/2016 3:50 PM, Pete Helgren wrote:

My guess is that this guy has gone casters up but...tapping into the brain trust here.

I have a 3580-S4E external SAS LTO4 drive that is throwing an error when I try to read or write to the drive. Tape loads OK but if I run DSPTAP TAP01 I get an error "Media error on volume *N device TAP01". I have repeatedly cleaned the drive, blew out the dust and ANZPRB says it's a 95% chance that the hardware has failed. I tried different tapes. Varied the drive on an off. Reset the SAS cable connections but no joy. I hardly ever use the thing because I don't really have a great deal of data to protect on my i because it is a development machine. Probably *under use* is the issue.....

So, any "kick it in the head" solutions here? Barring that, any recommendations on a trustworthy repair facility? I found one place that charged $375.00 for an IBM LTO repair which beats buying a refurbished unit....

Suggestions would be appreciated....

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