Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-11-09 Thread Mahesh Tailor
: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it? Like Wanda and Bob, we've had our 3494 for coming up on 7 years now. In that time, though, we've never had a robot failure, nor have we had to run in manual mode. We

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-11-08 Thread Gee, Norman
. The replacement was some black Teflon cover metal shaft. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Bronder Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth

3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Richard Rhodes
Do you have the HA1 high availability option on your 3494 or 3584 library? If you have HA1, do you think it was worth the money? How often has your robot failed? We have a couple 3494 libraries with the HA1 option. In 3-4 years of service the spare robot only was needed a couple times.As we

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Otto Schakenbos
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Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread William Boyer
Subject: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it? Do you have the HA1 high availability option on your 3494 or 3584 library? If you have HA1, do you think it was worth the money? How often has your robot failed? We have a couple 3494 libraries with the HA1 option. In 3-4 years

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Richard Sims
Rick - I guess it depends upon whether your needs could survive an outage for some hours... On our 3494, I would say that the accessor fails about once every two years or so, sometimes a worn-out motor, sometimes an over-flexed cable. The last time was a couple of weeks ago: from service

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:54:20AM -0400, Richard Rhodes wrote: Do you have the HA1 high availability option on your 3494 or 3584 library? If you have HA1, do you think it was worth the money? How often has your robot failed? We have a couple 3494 libraries with the HA1 option. In 3-4 years

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Prather, Wanda
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Booth - UIUC Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:17 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it? On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:54:20AM -0400, Richard Rhodes wrote: Do you

Re: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread David Bronder
Like Wanda and Bob, we've had our 3494 for coming up on 7 years now. In that time, though, we've never had a robot failure, nor have we had to run in manual mode. We have the dual-gripper option, though, and that's saved us several times when we've had gripper failures. For example, the time the

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Bullock
Bronder Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it? Like Wanda and Bob, we've had our 3494 for coming up on 7 years now. In that time, though, we've never had a robot failure, nor have we had to run

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Thomas Denier
I know some of you are thinking that I should have been able to use the drives in a manual mode, and so did I at the time. But try as I might, I couldn't get them to define in and change my STGPOOL configurations to use the manual devices. We have a 3494. The last time we did a disaster

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread William Boyer
: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it? I know some of you are thinking that I should have been able to use the drives in a manual mode, and so did I at the time. But try as I might, I couldn't get them to define in and change my STGPOOL configurations to use the manual

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:34:16PM -0400, Thomas Denier wrote: I know some of you are thinking that I should have been able to use the drives in a manual mode, and so did I at the time. But try as I might, I couldn't get them to define in and change my STGPOOL configurations to use the

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Bullock
more and see if some of the other suggestions work for next time around. Thx Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Booth - UIUC Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:29 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Bob Booth - UIUC
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:07:14PM -0600, Ben Bullock wrote: Well, the problem with that suggestion is that the front panel on the library was not working. The PC would not even boot up with the arctic card problem, so there was no way to change any of the library settings. No, this is

Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it?

2005-10-11 Thread Ben Bullock
Subject: Re: 3494/3584 HA1 High Availability Option - is it worth it? On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:07:14PM -0600, Ben Bullock wrote: Well, the problem with that suggestion is that the front panel on the library was not working. The PC would not even boot up with the arctic card problem, so