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Original Message:
Sent: Wed October 04, 2023 02:43 PM
From: David Mackenzie
Subject: IBM Spectrum SDE is broken in Windows 10/11 For LTO 9,8,7....
The above link isn't publicly accessible, but I gather it's not great news.
We've given up on LTFS on (non-Server) Windows ever being fixed, and have moved over to a Mac Mini. We put our ATTO SAS card in a Sonnet Echo Express PCIE-to-Thunderbolt converter and interfaced the LTO drive with the Mac that way. Let's hope that keeps working for a long time!
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David Mackenzie
Original Message:
Sent: Wed October 04, 2023 02:35 PM
From: Fred OLIVIER
Subject: IBM Spectrum SDE is broken in Windows 10/11 For LTO 9,8,7....
This is the end my friends : https://quantumhub-my.sharepoint.com/personal/everett_gidlund_quantum_com/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Feverett%5Fgidlund%5Fquantum%5Fcom%2FDocuments%2F%5FFromBox%2FFirmware%2FLTFS%5Ffrm%2F2%2E4%2E5%2FMA02648A%2Dv01%2Epdf&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Feverett%5Fgidlund%5Fquantum%5Fcom%2FDocuments%2F%5FFromBox%2FFirmware%2FLTFS%5Ffrm%2F2%2E4%2E5&ga=1
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Fred OLIVIER
Original Message:
Sent: Fri June 30, 2023 11:06 PM
From: David Mackenzie
Subject: IBM Spectrum SDE is broken in Windows 10/11 For LTO 9,8,7....
Another frustrated Windows user here. Windows keeps installing this **** update, so our investment in LTO is completely unusable until we uninstall it.
Does IBM have any comment or timeline for how long we'll need to keep stopping Windows Updates?
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David Mackenzie
Original Message:
Sent: Thu June 01, 2023 06:34 PM
From: Rich B
Subject: IBM Spectrum SDE is broken in Windows 10/11 For LTO 9,8,7....
It appears that windows update KB5025221 have created errors in everything IBM LTFS except for load/unload commands. All other commands fail with this error ""Error 0x800703E6: Invalid access to memory location"
When reviewing LTFS Windows event logs it is filled with many interface errors when trying to mount.
I have attached the windows LTFS Event logs for further review. As a work around I have been directing everyone to install Teracopy in addition with IBM spectrum SDE. For whatever reason Teracopy will write to LTFS without receiving the memory error but it has issues with timeouts, so it isn't a great work around.
Thank you,
Richard
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Rich B
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