Edward, <br>This sounds to me like the drive is bad. Have you cleaned it? Done any of the manufacturer diagnostics on it?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bblisa4@nedharvey.com">bblisa4@nedharvey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I have an LTO3 tape autoloader. It's been in production for about 3-4 years, but it's never been reliable. For the last 9 months or so, it's been so unreliable I've barely used it at all, but now I'm working hard to bring it back to life.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Right now, I have a very repeatable behavior: I can write all the data I want to all the tapes I want, as long as I only write zero's. But when I write any real data (containing a mixture of 1's in it) then I can only write a small amount of data (1M or 100M or so) it varies... And it exits with IO error.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Tapes have been in rotation. Meaning we don't just write once and archive permanently. We write them, take them offsite, and some time later they will eventually rotate back in to be written again. I don't know how many times each tape has been written ... I would guess 5 times each roughly.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I wonder, maybe the failure mode for LTO3 tapes is that they start becoming unwritable when they're old? Or unwritable when they've been written more than X times?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Any ideas? I tried googling, but didn't find anything relevant.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks...</p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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