Brad wrote:
it turns out that the ISL> isunable to read anything but a 125M DAT if you
have a DDS3 drive during an
UPDATE when the SLT was made by AUTOPAT.

<snip>

Is this problem restricted to AUTOPAT?  Do you have the same problem with
Patch/iX?

Scott Lindholm
Sr Systems Administrator
Corporate Express
303-664-3264
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 9:05 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      PowerPatch 7 DDS3 and SLT
>
>  We ran into a critical situation on 9/23/99 while updating our 929 to 5.5
> PP7 with REACTIVE PATCHES using AUTOINST for the PP and AUTOPAT for the
> reactives.  To make a long story short,  it turns out that the ISL> is
> unable to read anything but a 125M DAT if you have a DDS3 drive during an
> UPDATE when the SLT was made by AUTOPAT.  It has now been recommended to
> us
> by HP to  use only 125M DATS for all SLT's as this problem may occur with
> any SLT on other than125M DAT if using a DDS3 tape drive.  This problem
> caused us six extra hours of downtime.
>
>  Brad Frondorf - Berks County 911