Whats the life span of an ultrium 2 tape?? - Dell 200/400 GB LTO Ultrium 2 Tape Media Cartridge (m0903) Single Unit Storage Media

The life expectancy for LT03 tape media is 30 years if kept in the proper storage environment (cool and dry). BTW StorageTek warranties LTO media for as long as you own the media and store it within the specified parameters.

Ideal conditions are 60 degrees F and 20% relative humidity. Note a 10% change in either temperature or humidity will shorten the lifespan by 50%

411byJay

You can download LTT from www.hp.com/support/tapetools

Stop your backup services and Ran some test

First try to double check your SCSI controller drivers and your drive firmware (With LTT)

look closely on the tray,, u'll find a pin hole in it,,, just enter the saftey pin, and it will edject

Have a look at the IBM Tape compatiability chart

are you using the correct cable for the drive - it needs to be the correct cable that came with the drive - also is it terminated

Tape drives are an antiquated backup solution. For less than $100 you can buy a 1 Terabyte USB 2 hard drive with space to back up even the most data-intensive systems.

Hi,

if you "have not" using Backup Software (e.g. Symantec Backup Exec, CA), you can try this IBM LTO-4 driver for Win2K.

IBM LTO-4 Device Driver for Windows 2000


Ned Huang
Tandberg Data Taiwan
Technical Support.

have you checked to see how much data is being backed up? Also what software are you using - it all depends on encryption

what software are you using? try not backing up the system state to see if that changes anything?

Yeah the Ultrium 4 tape drives only r/w to ULT3 and ULT4 tapes.

We put a Ultrium 2 tape in our 4 drive and it seems to be locked permanently.