How do I verify a media?

[jytrudel]

Hi,

Is there a way to verify if it's possible to write on a media to see if it's damaged?

I bought 20 new media, did the Inventory and put the tapes in Scratch Media and i got this error during the backup:

drive_error">Storage device "IBM LTO4 Tape Drive" reported an error on a request to write data to media. Error reported: 0x17

I would like to verify the media one by one if possible.

Thank you!

Jay

[Larry_Fine]

Running a "long erase" job is probably your best bet.  It is certainly the easiest.  A long erase will probably take about 3 hours per cartridge as it write zeros over the entire tape.

[pkh]

Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility against the tape drive. There should be a write test

[jytrudel · Accepted solution]

The long erase seems to have worked.

Thx!

Jay