Hi, Below is the SMART TapeAlert output I received after running btape 'test' and 'speed' tests on a new IBM ULTRIUM-HH5 LTO-5 drive using brand new Fujifilm tape. Is it normal to see 40 (corrected) errors per few GBs of data that the tests have written to tape?
$ smartctl -H -l error /dev/sgtape1 smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-78-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === TapeAlert: OK Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 0 0 0 0 0 0.010 0 write: 0 0 0 40 40 0.073 0 Non-medium error count: 0 Thanks, Ivan -- Ivan Adzhubey, Ph.D. Instructor Division of Genetics, Dept of Medicine Brigham & Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School New Research Building, Room 0464C 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 tel.: (617) 525-4728 fax: (617) 525-4705 web: http://genetics.bwh.harvard.edu/wiki/sunyaevlab/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users