On Thursday 08 March 2007, Michael Loftis wrote: >--On March 8, 2007 4:57:51 PM -0500 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:35:54PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: >>> New drives are really quiet. Not to mention some new libraries (like >>> our Spectra T50) bury the drives in the middle of the library so you >>> can't really hear the mechanism working like you can older libraries >>> with louder drives. Desktop units you can still pretty readily >>> listen to and tell when they're shoe-shining, but as far as >>> libraries go, does anyone do anything other than just do their best >>> to listen? That's what I've done for...well...ever but I'm >>> beginning to wonder if there's a better way. >> >> Does your drive have an activity light. When I first put in my LTO-1, >> the card was really old and gave low rates. A newer card more than >> doubled it. Another difference was the activity light. It is on >> nearly solid now, it was on/off/on/off on the old slower scsi card. > >Buried in the library. Can't view the drives at all with any of the >Spectra libraries. The T50 if you open it, and remove a storage > cartridge you can kinda see the drives but they're pretty obscured by > the loader mechanism.
That seems to me like it ought to be something you could bitch at the vendor about, nibbling on them like a duck till they issue a fix. Heck, that to me is just a basic troubleshooting & tuning tool. To leave that out was a very questionable action considering the cost of a library. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Operator, please trace this call and tell me where I am.
