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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Storage Archive
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 29, 2024

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Avoid to damage good tape media by bad drive

In Baidu hyper scale tape storage system, we met many cases that good tape cartridges is marked to bad status because of bad drive.

For example, drive1 is bad,  Archive EE still uses it to write or read data and get the error result, Archive EE will mark the tape cartridges to replace status, no matter the cartridges is good or bad. Sometime more than 30+ cartridges will be changed to replace status on single archive node.  Customer had to replace the cartridge one by one, every cartridges will cost customer more than 20 hours. Two drives are used during replace operation, and archive node will be downgraded from the hyper scale system.

 

Requirement:

Customer expects the enhancement to avoid that good cartridge is marked to replace status. 

 

RPQ：RPQ672-92702
https://www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/score/requestor?state=withdrawn&uniqueId=92702

Idea priority Urgent
8 MERGED

On tape read or write fail, before marking tape bad, verify this isn't likely due to a tape drive or library issue

Merged
When a tape drive has hardware issues, spectrum archive will keep trying to use it to read or write tapes and then mark those tapes as need_replace or require_replace. Often there is nothing wrong with the tapes, but the tape drive was in a bad st...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

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