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тАО11-14-2002 04:08 AM
тАО11-14-2002 04:08 AM
Re: DLT tape drive nightmare! Please help.
Indeed, there's no temperature indicated. New firmware may fix it. I checked with other drive models and found DLT8000 can report temp. If after fw upgrade your drive will not report temp then it may not be able to report it at all :o(
After update please make another support ticket and post it here
Eugeny
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тАО11-14-2002 04:55 AM
тАО11-14-2002 04:55 AM
Re: DLT tape drive nightmare! Please help.
Any other ideas?
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тАО11-14-2002 05:04 AM
тАО11-14-2002 05:04 AM
Re: DLT tape drive nightmare! Please help.
Anyway, if we suspect environmental problems (excessive t) please manage to get drive out a server and run it in well conditioned environment to check if it will work.
Eugeny
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тАО11-15-2002 07:53 AM
тАО11-15-2002 07:53 AM
Re: DLT tape drive nightmare! Please help.
I have 3 units DLT40i of Hewlett-Packard, installed in 3 HP Netserver.
I have 2 operating systems: windows NT and windows 2000.
All with the last service pack and the firmware of the DLT, and it happens me exactly the same thing that to you.
I have changed the units about of a dozen of times.
The last time was due to that after inserting the cartridge, it comes off the leader of the unit and it gets out of service with all the lights blinking.
I already have several reports facts to HP but apparently there is not solution to this.
According to my opinion this is due to flaws in the design of the units.
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тАО11-15-2002 09:57 AM
тАО11-15-2002 09:57 AM
Re: DLT tape drive nightmare! Please help.
Please note that the value reported by the tape drive should always be around 40 degrees C. Temperatures into the low 50's are not problems.
The temperature reported by the drive typically is 15 degrees above ambient and the drive should not have problems with temperature until the value reported by the drive is in the mid 50's. A value of 43 is not a problem.
I'm not familiar with the Compaq tape drive numbers but I believe this drive is a DLT7000. If that is the case then when the drive is replaced you should ONLY use new tapes. DLT7000 drives when worn will cause abrasive particles to build up in the tape cartridge and re-using that tape will deposit the particles in the new drive. Loading a tape for a single restore shouldn't be a problem but using an old tape multiple times is not a good idea. If you have a replacement drive and a new tape and still have problems then there is probably a problem with the quality of the replacement drive.
As mentioned several times the buzzing noise when a tape is loaded is perfectly normal but if it repeats multiple times it means the drive is having difficulty calibrating on this tape.
Also you should check your cleaning tape. I have seen a few cases where an expired cleaning tape was being used and once the calibration fails the drive is unable to report that the tape has expired.
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тАО11-15-2002 10:01 AM
тАО11-15-2002 10:01 AM
Re: DLT tape drive nightmare! Please help.
I've seen these identical symptoms in an EXTERNAL tape drive (DLT) when the power supply was marginal, verging on failure.
We replaced several drives unnecessarily before the bad PS was diagnosed and replaced.
HTH,
Paul
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