I recently have been having problems with my TL2000 Library (F.11/3.20e firmware) with a LTO8 ULT3580-HH8 drive (J4D1 firmware).

Firstly, the I/O slot won't open and would give me a "A1 80" error. When I verify my library, it also gives me the same error. When I manually depress the I/O slot lock, it unlocks well from the magazine.

The other error I'm getting are "bad tape" designations on my cartridge. I used 2 brand new LTO8 tapes and 1 cleaning cartridge and get this error in the Inventory menu.

When I use Veeam, I try to erase the tape and get drive errors. I ran ITDT and wouldn't get beyond any area that needs to mount a test tape from slot 1 or the I/O slot. However, I can manually move cartridges between slots and into my drive so it's not something mechanical.

Lastly, when I clean the drive from the TL2000 web interface, it fails with error code 61.

Is there a root cause to all these problems? Any insight would be helpful.