I have IBM ULT3580 HH4 backup tape drive want to know weather LTO Ultrium 3 tape are support in the drive because i have used only LTO Ultrium 4 tapes.
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You can open the housing, and remove the drive. Then open the drive, and use air under pressure to remove dust. Be careful, because if you don't know how the mechanism works, it could be the drive will not take in a tape at all.
I do have a IBM manual, where they show how to open the thing, but it is not easy. The ultrium LTO full high drives are all the same.
And I don't know how to get it with you.
You have no other choice but to remove it manually ie theres a problem with the mechanism . I t can't come coz sometimes the tape is btw the read head and the pinch rollers .
Hardware compression is more efficient and faster than software compression and under normal constancies you won't want to do that.
Having said that if your drive allows it you would need to download and install a software utility made by your tape manufacturer. That what you will use to turn off that functionality; not a setting on the PC or the backup software. Bottom line is you will need to talk to IBM support.
Probably not the answer you wanted to hear but I just went through this with HP a few months ago. They have a general purpose utility that turns off the hardware compression, does a drive analysis, a cheapo write current alignment, firmware update and a few other neat tricks.
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