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Meerkatmag
Level 2
11 years ago

LTO5 tape is showing incorrect capacity

Hi There, I'm new to this forum, I use Backup Exec 2010 with an IBM LTO5 tape drive and we have three tapes that are showing a capacity of 35.4gb.  If I try to use them it does indeed become full ...
2010
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Basics
Windows XP
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Meerkatmag
Level 2
11 years ago

Thanks all for suggestions.  I have already tried a long-erase, which ran through successfully but still reported 35.4gb capacity at the end.  I'll try IBM diagnostic tool (not sure what that is but I'll try to find it) and check for Hard Write errors.  Funny thing is all three tapes are EXACTLY 34.5gb capacity, so it doesn't look like a write error.