Have you ran a cleaning tape? I have a similar drive and every six months or so I have to run a cleaning pass to get it stop erroring on write.
Sent from my iPhone Brock Palen > On Apr 8, 2023, at 1:07 PM, Ruth Ivimey-Cook <r...@ivimey.org> wrote: > > I don't know where else to ask this, hoping you'll forgive me! I am using > bareos, but this seems to be something else. > > I have an HP-branded HH SAS LTO5 tape drive that has been working fine until > just recently, when it has started rejecting tapes. The symptom is that > reading from the tape basically works, but attempts to write any noticeable > amount of data (more than a second or so of writing at speed) cause it to > abruptly stop mid flight, and then what I can only presume is some sort of > reset before it rewinds and errors the write out with an I/O error. I can > write a bareos label to the tape, but starting a job fails after about 700 > tape blocks. > > I've tested the drive with the hp_ltt console tools (linux) and it is > reported as being fine. (excellent margin). Testing with hp_ltt a tape on > which it's already errored fails again in the same way, and at least once the > test failed to complete. Switching to a once-written tape experienced the > same issues although that drive had written to that tape before without > issue. I don't currently have any *new* LTO5 media to try with though the > tape this all started on was new at that time. > > Any ideas what's wrong? > > One thing I'm concerned about is that possibly the drive is somehow damaging > otherwise good tapes... is that possible? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ruth > > > -- > Tel: 01223 414180 > Blog: http://www.ivimey.org/blog > LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/ruthivimeycook/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "bareos-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/d5d91050-9143-6261-c42e-e3b409eb72d1%40ivimey.org. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/95CC6886-8D6D-4A27-B1CF-20987DA6EEC0%40mlds-networks.com.
