SL500 - Invalid Media Labels Found In Library Logs

Asset ID:	1-72-2148365.1
Update Date:	2017-06-13
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Solution 2148365.1 : SL500 - Invalid Media Labels Found In Library Logs

Applies to:

Sun StorageTek SL500 Modular Library System - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
LTO Tape Drive - Version All Versions and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

This document assists with resolving invalid media labels being found in the library logs.

Cause

The SL500 logs show that the customer has invalid labels on either their cleaning tapes and/or their data tapes that aren't supported by the drives that are installed in the SL500 library.

Solution

The customer needs to be made aware of these invalid labels on their media and we should recommend that they change the labels on their affected media.

For the LTO drives in the SL500 the following labels would be valid:

HP or IBM LTO2 drives would only support the CU, L1 and L2 media domain IDs
HP or IBM LTO3 drives would only support the CU, L1, L2, and L3 media domain IDs
HP or IBM LTO4 drives would only support the CU, L2, L3, and L4 media domain IDs
HP or IBM LTO5 drives would only support the CU, L3, L4, and L5 media domain IDs
HP LTO6 drives would only support the CU, L4, L5, and L6 media domain IDs

Note: The "CU" media domain ID should only be used for Universal LTO Cleaning Media and the L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, and L6 media domain ID labels should only be used for the customer's data tapes.

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