Is anyone using the H1A drive and if you do... How is it?
David C. Pearson
IS Production Support Analyst
System & Network Service
Snohomish County PUD # 1
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-----Original Message-----
From: James, Phil [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3590 Tape Drives
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I experienced some problems with the B1A drives also, but we caused
some of
our own problems.
We were running them 23 out of 24 hours every day.
We cured the problem by going to the E1A and adding more tape
drives.
The different between the drives is the B1A are 128 track, the E1A
are 256
track and the H1A are 384 track drives.
You gain one third capacity for every increment you go up on your
drives.
We current have a total of 30 E1A tape drives between the open
systems
backup and the MVS systems native drives.
Average at the most maybe two calls per year on the same drive
different
problems never the same.
We still have a high percentage use per day.
Philip A. James, Systems Software Specialist
Software Services Unit
Information Technology Services Division / Data Center
California Public Employees' Retirement System
Phone: (916) 326-3715
Fax: (916) 326-3884
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-----Original Message-----
From: Martina Sawatzki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3590 Tape Drives
Hi,
We are working with a 3494 IBM silo with 4 drives - 3590 type B -
which
is connected to a RS/6000. As we are having lots of hardware
problems with
these drives we think about changing them to 3590 drives type E.
Does anyone have experience with this type of tape drive ? I`m
mainly
interested in a kind of comparison concerning performance and
availibility
between the both types B -> E.
Thanks a lot
Martina
