On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:26 PM, kit <networker-forum AT backupcentral DOT 
com> wrote:
> My practical experience is that they will fail to read the LTO2 tapes some of 
> the time. One site it was 50% of them (they would read on an LTO2 
> reinstalled), another about 5%, others with no problems. No real explanation 
> was found. We suspected
>
> Kit

Would you get different results if you attempted multiple times, or if
a drive detects an error on older media, that error keeps being
detected in the same place?

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