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What are Soft Write Errors?

Tape Engine

What are Soft Write Errors?

by  davidmichel  Posted    (Edited  )
A Soft Write error is when the drive fails to write data to tape. So it moves the tape to the next block and tries again. This will continue until the drive either correctly writes the data or exceeds a preset threshold. If it does write the data each failed attempt is a Soft Write Error, if it fails altogether then it is a UDE Unrecoverable Data Error, or Media Error.

Soft Write errors will result in reduced capacity and throughput. Those tape drives that support Tape Alert there will usually be a message that there was a problem writing to tape.

If the drive has the capacity to report these errors they will be recorded in the Media Database.
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