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HSM (SAM-QFS): Archiver Reporting MEDIA ERRORs With Unsupported Virtualized Tape Devices Being Used (Doc ID 2763348.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) and StorageTek QFS Software - Version 6.1 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Customer configuring new environment using a Quantum Scalar i40 tape library.

The archiver is unable to successfully write to tape.  They are seeing a few different error conditions, either when attempting to just read a tape label or when writing data, as shown in a few different device log excerpts below: 

Cause

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