Hello to the support community.
So I am looking to see if anyone might be able to help with some issues I am having with a new LTO-8 drive (TS2280). I had a different thread going where I was having some software issues with the drive on a Linux machine. I moved the drive over to a Windows 10 computer to see if that would work better.
With this new setup, I am getting errors sometimes when writing files to tape. I am able to sometimes write files with no issues. But often the drive will write files and then an error will come up. On the front of the drive I see a '6' yellow error light. I eject the tape. I then need to run the cleaning tape because it will then say 'C'. After that.. the error lights are gone and I can run another test. I will still have the same issue.
I'm using an internal ATTO SAS card (the ATTO H1244) and have installed their latest driver and firmware for the card.
I've tried a few different blank LTO-8 Fuji tapes, and also putting the drive into a few different computers. I also try different files to write to the tape.. so it's not always the same files. I'm just using the IBM Spectrum SDE 2.4.4 software. I've also tried 2 different new LTO-8 internal SAS drives. Both have given the '6' error.
I just can't figure out why it will error out and give me the '6' message. Can anyone shed any light or offer any suggestions? Thank you so much.
-Peter Berg
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Peter Berg
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