It looks like it could be a failed drive. It seems to think the tape isn’t compatible. 20.10.19 11:29:30.85 LIB/ERR<80 51 00 12 2B 0F 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF 04 01 FF                              FF FF 00 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20                              20 20 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > IR: incompatible medium 20.10.16 16:45:03.74 LIB/ERR<80 F4 91 15 2B 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 FF 02 17 FF                              04 01 02 30 30 30 30 30 30 4C 38 00 00 00 00 00                              00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > HE: drive load timeout 20.10.16 16:44:08.34 TRC/CST<84 FF 01 21 > Drive Warn or Crit Tape Alert flag
We have a PowerVault TL2000 with a IBM ULT3580-HH8. We had a power outage in our area and the PowerVault lost power while it had a tape in the IBM drive. After power was restored, we could not get the tape to eject from the drive. We found a guide online on how to safely manually eject the tape and we put it back into only empty slot and then a library rescan. It saw all of the tapes in their correct spots and didn't show any error on the drive. When we tried to do a backup using Veeam that night like we always do, it failed. The web interface now shows the drive as having a error and status unknown. I've tried resetting, rebooting, and the diagnostic, but they are fail to help. And advice on something to try would be great or do we just need to replace the IBM drive at this point?
PowerVault TL2000's IBM drive won't take taps after power outage