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Angus_M
Level 2
18 years ago

Soft read and write errors - should I be concerned?

Hi, We have Veritas 9.installed on our windows 2000 os server. Veritas has been showing in the tape stats that our tapes are receiving soft read and write errors. As I understand these are not criti...
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Ken_Putnam
Level 6
18 years ago
As long as the Diagnostics show no problems, you should be safe
 
But, the soft errors will slow your throughput a little
 
If you start to regularly get Hard errors, it is probably time to run the Diags again