March 23, 2014

The current situation The tape library I am using now is a DLT-8000 with a 15-cartridge magazine. Until a few weeks ago, it’s been quite reliable. But now, the drive inside it is not performing well. It’s throwing drive faults and failing to write everything to the tape (i.e. what we read back is smaller than what we wrote). I have two replacement DLT-8000 drives and I’ve tried both. Neither of them are […]