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Maddy 🏳️⚧️ - Floofy fops waff :neofox_floof:@maddy@thegayagenda.fans (2026-06-03 23:03:52)
Did some light testing of the new (to me) drive late last night. Ran a cleaning tape successfully, so I tossed in an LTO 4 tape I wasn’t afraid to lose, and threw together a backup job to use up most of the tape. It ran overnight successfully! :neofox_aww:
The drive shows up as an IBM ULT3580-TD5 on my computer.
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Maddy 🏳️⚧️ - Floofy fops waff :neofox_floof:@maddy@thegayagenda.fans (2026-06-03 23:06:26)
The 'dashboard' software that works with my PowerVault 124T and its LTO 5 drive doesn't seem to want to work with this tape drive, so I can't read its lifetime usage stats, but I'll hopefully be able to check that out later when I do some digging.
Might have to create an IBM account just so I can download some software from their site. >.>
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Maddy 🏳️⚧️ - Floofy fops waff :neofox_floof:@maddy@thegayagenda.fans (2026-06-03 23:09:30)
Now, I said "overnight", but in reality, it only took a little over two hours to write most of an LTO 4 tape encrypted, but uncompressed. I just started it around bedtime, so I didn't see it complete until this morning.
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