I have IBM LTO-5 drives, Production are at B6W2, Test are at A5R0 and A9Q5.

I have seen read/write errors, but mostly as a result of excessive head wear.
I would suggest keeping an eye on how often the drives request cleanings - 
symptomatically if you see them starting to request cleanings more often, they 
will eventually request it every day - you will need to replace the drive...

I am not seeing any error 86 at this time.

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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:23:10 -0500
From: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
Subject: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 Drive Question (8.0gbps FC, FW: B5BF)
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Hi,

I read on this list awhile back there were some media issues others were
having with the IBM LTO-5 tape drives; after an update, things were better.
Currently running B5BF and notice a lot of '(86) - media read errors' on
separate drives in different locations, has anyone seen this, one could
chalk it up to some bad tape media but because it seems to occur across >2
drives in >1 location I was curious if anyone else had seen this issue and
if so, which F/W where they running that seemed to solve the issue?

Drive: IBM LTO-5 8.0gbps F/C
F/W: B5BF

Justin.
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