HSM: LTO-9 EOF1 not found - Direct I/O Errors - Unsupported MPXIO on Tape Config (Doc ID 2989885.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 04, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) and StorageTek QFS Software - Version 6.1.6 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Customer reported they have many new LTO-9 volumes that are getting media errors logged against them.

We followed one new volume from it's calibration/labeling until Direct I/O errors were seen.

This is typical device log (/var/opt/SUNWsamfs/devlog/<eq id>) entries seen when successfully calibrating and labeling an LTO-9 volume:

Every time that volume gets mounted after that we fail to find that EOF marker.

Customer was using new LTO-9 media and drives.

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