I recently opened a sealed box of HP DDS-3 tapes and put a couple into service.
 These two tapes, alone of all the tapes that we use for daily backups, cause
our tape drive to exhibit a strange behaviour.

When loading one of these tapes the drive will often visibly move (lift and
drop) the tape several times and then after a short period eject it.  Other
times it will load the tape after reinsertion but will mount it without write
enabled.  Sometime it loads the tape correctly write enabled on the first try.

I first thought that the tape drive was beginning to fail, but switching drives
did not change those tapes' behaviour.  It is only these two tapes that do
this.  I have not tried any others from that box, yet. However, I have several
boxes of these in storage and I am concerned that there some problem with using
older new stock tapes.

Has anyone else had experience with this sort of thing?


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