You can also try increasing the Max No of Consecutive Errors from 20
to some large value before enabling the drives. If that doesn't work,
you probably have a hardware problem.

Ken

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Bruce Breidall
<Bruce.Breidall AT concur DOT com> wrote:
> You have a hardware problem.
>
> Call your vendor for support.
>
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> Subject: [Networker] tape drive : service mode
>
> I am using 4 IBM-LTO 3 tape drives and status of all the drives was set
> to enabled.
>
> Today I saw 3 drives in the service mode. I manually changed the mode
> back to "enabled"
>
> But it automatically went back into "service" mode.
>
> What could be the prob ?
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