Hot Diggety! Shawn Price was rumored to have written: > For what it's worth, my boss cheaped out and got some non IBM tapes for > our 3584, and I've had nothing but problems with them. Mostly Imation > and a few Emtecs. We are running the first generation LTO 1 drives, so > there might be an issue with those as well. I have now gone in and just > started pulling the tapes that have gone read-only more than twice and > replaced them with IBMs.
Make sure your library and drives are at the latest firmware revision levels -- this is especially important since more recent firmware revs fixes bugs that causes problems with non-IBM tapes from what I hear. Latest 3584 library firmware you can get from IBM's web/ftp site: 3300 if no D42 drives in library; else, 3060. To check firmware rev for library w/AIX: # lscfg -vl smc0 | grep FW The library firmware rev # also appears on the main LCD panel screen. Latest 3584 drive firmware you can get from IBM's web/ftp site: 36U3 for LTO-1 drives and 38D0 for LTO-2 drives. To check firmware rev for drive w/AIX: # lscfg -vl rmt0 | grep FW (...and for each drive... rmt1, rmt2, etc.) -Dan