DLT8000 not working

[Alan Casey]

HP-UX 11.11
DLT8000
The DLT has stopped working and I'm getting the follwoing in the syslog:
( I have rebooted and nothing has changed recently, also the "requires cleaning tap" keeps flashing even though I have cleaned it several times)

Nov 2 18:51:58 warehse1 EMS [2963]: ------ EMS Event Notification ------ Valu
e: "MAJORWARNING (3)" for Resource: "/storage/events/tapes/SCSI_tape/0_2_0_0.2.0
" (Threshold: >= " 3") Execute the following command to obtain event det
ails: /opt/resmon/bin/resdata -R 194183170 -r /storage/events/tapes/SCSI_tape/
0_2_0_0.2.0 -n 194183169 -a
Nov 3 00:01:52 warehse1 avrd[1793]: Reservation Conflict status from DLT8000 (d
evice 0)
Nov 3 00:08:05 warehse1 vmunix: SCSI TAPE: dev = 0xcd042000 I/O error during cl
ose
Nov 3 00:12:28 warehse1 avrd[1793]: Reservation Conflict status cleared from DL
T8000 (device 0)
Nov 3 09:37:29 warehse1 su: + ta ts9ac1-root
Nov 3 11:43:18 warehse1 avrd[1793]: Reservation Conflict status from DLT8000 (d
evice 0)
Nov 3 12:01:00 warehse1 avrd[1793]: Reservation Conflict status cleared from DL
T8000 (device 0)
Nov 3 16:08:58 warehse1 avrd[1793]: Reservation Conflict status from DLT8000 (d
evice 0)

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Call Mr Goodwrench. You need a new tape drive.

[Alan Casey]

thanks