Errors from Unsupported Media in HP Tape Drives

Certain Hewlett-Packard tape drives can only read 4 mm tapes of a specific length. Some, for example, read only 60 meters tapes and do not support the use of 90- or 120- meter tapes. To determine the type of tape supported by your HP drive, consult the hardware manual provided with the drive.

If you attempt to use unsupported media in an HP tape drive, you may encounter the following types of error messages:

• When you use the nsrmm or nsrjb command to label the tape:

nsrmm: error, label write, No more processes (5)

• When you attempt to use the scanner -i command:

scanner: error, tape label read, No more processes (11)
scanning for valid records ...
read: 0 bytes
read: 0 bytes
read: 0 bytes