Hello Dean, can I ask what sorts of problems your cache-a appliance was having? I’m having a similarly difficult time with our cache-a device and am wondering if simply replacing the drive would fix our situation as well.
Our tape drive seems to read tapes just fine, but once it attempts to format or write to a drive, all four status lights on the drive light up after a few seconds and it seems as though the drive kind of hits a wall. The format doesn’t seem to be at all successful and stalls out completely. Love the cataloging features of the device and we’d love to keep it in our arsenal if we can, but obviously not worth much if it can’t write :/