G'day,
I recently went through several weeks of drive problems and microcode upgrades on my IBM 3484 LTO library...one of the first questions asked was "what type of media are you using?" (we happen to use Fuji). From what I understand, there is a problem with a particular vendor's LTO media (I think they even narrowed it down to a specific lot number)...which vendor, I don't recall (I know it wasn't Fuji!), but I would ask your LTO drive vendor if they're aware of any media problems with Imation media. If you ask Imation to test Imation media, I'd think it might always come back positive...???
By the by, our problem ended up being a combination of microcode and a hardware "correction"...we've been runnning great for the last several weeks, not a media or drive error to be seen... :grin:
Regards,
-PB