Re: [Bacula-users] verify error with LTO hardware encryption SOLVED

2015-12-23 Thread Mark D. Strohm
Hello Kern- Thanks for the reply. Something like that may be at the root of the problem, but the drive does not report being in SysV mode. It shows only these options set: buffer-writes, async-writes, read-ahead, can-bsr and scsi2logical. The Tape Testing Tools and their debug modes were very

Re: [Bacula-users] verify error with LTO hardware encryption SOLVED

2015-12-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, In looking at your patch, I would guess that your tape drive is set in SysV mode, which Bacula does not support. Bacula only supports Berkeley tape conventions. Have you worked through the Tape Testing chapter of the main manual? If you have, I would find it very strange that the testin

Re: [Bacula-users] verify error with LTO hardware encryption SOLVED

2015-12-21 Thread Mark D. Strohm
Just to follow up, I did find a workaround for the I/O errors with LTO hardware encryption: At the end of a tape file, space a record forward, then a record back (code below). I have not found the actual cause of the problem. It is most likely with the vendor firmware for that particular IBM