>>>>> "JT" == Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> writes: JT> Jason, can you try the above? If it works and Doug doesn't respond, JT> I'm inclined yo submit this band aid. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to work for me. Maybe I'm building the wrong thing, though. I checked out 4.12, cherry picked 68c59fcea1f2c6a54c62aa896cc623c1b5bc9b47 and then applied your one liner on top of that. There appears to be no change in behavior: [root@backup2 ~]# mtx -f /dev/sg7 next 0 Unloading drive 0 into Storage Element 47...mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=0 (Unknown?!) mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=No Sense mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 00 mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00 mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no MOVE MEDIUM from Element Address 1 to 1047 Failed I can also apply the debugging patch and try again if that would give you more useful information. - J<