Apologies for the semi-off-topic posting, but this no doubt reaches
many people with experience in tape drives. My Dell PowerVault 100T
(an Archive Pyton) has developed a strange problem where it reports
excessive soft errors for perfectly good, brand new DDS4 tapes (having
now tried five in a row from a fresh box).
This leads to a) terrible throughput as the drive farts around
retrying and b) failure via I/O errors once it all gets a bit too
much. It's also concerning that the LED is indicating this. The
drive has been replaced once with no improvement.
What could be the problem here? I've checked cabling, termination,
tapes, etc. I'm running `mt setblk 32768; dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/st0` and provoking the problem this way.
Any pointers would be *much* appreciated!
Cheers, Ben
