> Hi list > > This is not really a bacula question.. but somehow really related. > > How common is it to have a "broken" LTO-tape? I've (in like 3-4 years > working with LTO) never seen this, but it looks like a borken tape. >
We do field service repairs for HP hardware and I have seen one or two cases where the tape has somehow become entangled in the internal drive mechanism and has broken. Reading your email a bit more maybe your problem is just that the tape can't be read or written to anymore. If it's a HP tape drive, use the HP Library & Tape Tools which is freely downloaded from HP and can run all sorts of tests on the media and the drive. If LT&T says the drive is failed then it is probably right. LTO drives (HP ones at least, I assume they all do) actually do a verify of the data they have just written and re-write any data that fails to read. This happens automatically as (I assume) that the read head is positioned so it can read the data that just been written. This allows the drive to keep some stats internally about how well things are going. If it is having to rewrite data a lot then you can assume that something is not right. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
