We saw a similar issue on LTO1's even with the latest firmware. We have
since upgraded to LTO3 drives and have not seen the issue since. Even
when reading the "trouble" LTO1's.

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 13:18 -0400, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
> Is there any particular firmware I should be running in my IBM drives to
> work with Imation tapes? We've been running Fuji and IBM with no issues
> for years, but we put a group of new Imation tapes in Friday - and I've
> had write errors on 4 of them so far, and a read error on one that
> caused the drive to go not-ready to the point it won't soft-reset. I am
> back-level on drive firmware (I don't usaually fix anything that's
> working) so I thought I'd check that before I get an RMA from the vendor
> for the tapes.
>
>
>
> TIA
>
>
>
> Tom Kauffman
>
> NIBCO Inc.
>
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