The drive (or driver) must be reporting the tape as read-only for some reason.
Maybe there is a hardware problem with the sensor that detects the write
protect tab? Also, are these LTO-6 tapes in an LTO-6 drive?
You could try writing to the tape with tar or dd.
__Martin
>>>>> On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:04:59 +0000, William Muriithi said:
>
> Hello
>
> I have a problem where the tapes I have loaded are going to Read-Only every
> time I have loaded it.
>
> | 2*| 000004L6 | Read-Only | LTO-6 | windows_regular
> |
>
> The tapes were already marked ("Recycle |Purged") available for backup when I
> originally loaded them:
>
> william@bacula ~]$ echo 'list media' | bconsole | grep 000004L6
> | 137 | 000004L6 | Read-Only | 1 | 1 | 0 |
> 5,184,000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | LTO-6 | 2 | 0 |
> 2022-03-12 13:47:55 |
>
> When I enable debug logging, I see this error:
>
> 18-Jun 13:07 eng-backup02-sd JobId 47726: Warning: mount.c:215 Open of Tape
> device "ULTRIUM-HH6" (/dev/nst0) Volume "000015L6" failed: ERR=tape_dev.c:170
> Unable to open device "ULTRI
> UM-HH6" (/dev/nst0): ERR=Read-only file system
>
> This is on all tapes that I have plugged to this system. This system has
> already been working previously, so configuration is likely correct. The
> media changer doesn't show any error on the LCD, and mount and dismount tapes
> fine.
>
> What would be the next step in debugging here?
>
> Regards,
> William
>
>
>
>
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