I have IBM LTO-5 drives, Production are at B6W2, Test are at A5R0 and A9Q5.
I have seen read/write errors, but mostly as a result of excessive head wear. I would suggest keeping an eye on how often the drives request cleanings - symptomatically if you see them starting to request cleanings more often, they will eventually request it every day - you will need to replace the drive... I am not seeing any error 86 at this time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:23:10 -0500 From: "Justin Piszcz" <jpis...@lucidpixels.com> Subject: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 Drive Question (8.0gbps FC, FW: B5BF) To: <veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> Message-ID: <001801ccb8af$ab386850$01a938f0$@lucidpixels.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, I read on this list awhile back there were some media issues others were having with the IBM LTO-5 tape drives; after an update, things were better. Currently running B5BF and notice a lot of '(86) - media read errors' on separate drives in different locations, has anyone seen this, one could chalk it up to some bad tape media but because it seems to occur across >2 drives in >1 location I was curious if anyone else had seen this issue and if so, which F/W where they running that seemed to solve the issue? Drive: IBM LTO-5 8.0gbps F/C F/W: B5BF Justin. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/attachments/20111212/a92e7ba0/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu