[PLUG] Re: Tape Drives and Power Supplies

[Pete Lancashire]

one place i worked used HP 6 tape DDS3 and 4 changers. They got
used pretty hard and 3 years was about it, maybe even less. i remember
something like 5-6 tapes a week.

and in even deeper fog, can't you query a dds drive how many tapes
it has read/written ?


-pete

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 11:18, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Pete" == Pete Lancashire <nix at petelancashire.com> writes:
> 
> Pete> How old is the drive, or do you know how many tapes have been
> Pete> through it ? The head(s) may be worn out, or hopefully just
> Pete> dirty.
> 
> Pete> Of the tape types I've used in recent years, DDS and LTO, they
> Pete> all have cleaning cartridges.
> 
> This is a DDS3 drive, BTW.
> 
> Yeah, the client was on a once-a-month cleaning schedule for about 3
> years.  We ran cleaning cartridges several times during this episode.
>