Not to say that the following discussion is in anyway related to the
described problem.  There is a problem utilizing any DDS tape not labeled as
"Media Recognition" in DDS3 drives.  A number of the older 60m and 90m DDS
tapes do not support this.  If you have or planning to install a DDS3 drive
you may want to check your old tapes to ensure they support "Media
Recognition".

Just a f.y.i.
Steve

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Steve Cole
Outer Banks Solutions, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brad <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 11:23 AM
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