A good thing to ask vendors when they suggest you patch software or update 
firmware is for the documentation for that patch/firmware that shows where it 
fixes your SPECIFIC issue.

Telling people to patch/update has always been viewed by me as just a vendor 
stalling tactic for the most part.  You should of course do planned 
patching/updating as regular maintenance but usually when it is suggested 
during troubleshooting it has little value and doesn't solve the issue.  In 
more than 20 years I can only think of 2-3 occasions where a vendor when so 
challenged was actually able to show where the suggested patch/firmware 
specifically mentioned the issue I was having.






-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
WALLEBROEK Bart
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 7:12 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 Drive Question (8.0gbps FC, FW: B5BF)

Make sure to run the latest firmware on the tape drives (B6W0).  IBM 'claims' 
that this will solve all media issues.

Best Regards,
Bart WALLEBROEK



Message: 1
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)
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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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
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