fwiw,
We had problems whith 120m DDS2 tapes when our drive was new. 'someone'
here were told that a lot of HPs (and other vendors) 120m tapes were
bad. We ended up using 90m tapes :-(, so far we have been able to fit
our backup in one 90m-tape so we didn't pursue the matter.
/per (just gossiping)

> For the second time in less than one month I got paged by our backup
job
> with an error.  In each case the problem was with a different tape
drive but
> in both cases an 120M DDS2 tape was involved.  The error messages on
the
> console were:
> MPE XL Status: Subsystem 113, error -44
> The media on device 'xx' is bad
>
> These were the first 'media' errors since we got these systems, almost
2
> years ago.  We started using the DDS2 tapes, sparingly, in the last
few
> months and having two errors in a month makes me wonder if there may
be
> something inherently wrong with the 120M DDS2 tapes or just with our
batch.
>
> Any similar experiences?
>
> Regards
>
> Paul H. Christidis
>