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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Storage Archive
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 25, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit SPA-I-39 Avoid to damage good tape media by bad drive.

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 state (and may have been subsequently replaced).

Consider more safety around bad tape drives or library state driving dozens of tapes into invalid state unnecessarily.

Potential ideas:

If a tape read/write/mount fails, requeue it to a separate drive. Only when it fails in a different drive mark the tape bad (similar to ts4500 media verification logic).

On a threshold of tape read/write/mount fails, check status and details from drive and consider disabling tape drive to avoid further failures. Threshold could be number of separate tapes having failures in one hour, or on each failure, or some other trigger.

Idea priority Medium

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