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Can you provide a bit more information?  The error code 45 is a generic
error reported by the hd driver which means the drive responded with
unit error status.  To find the exact cause of the error, the handler
does a SENSE.  That should have been reported on the same line with
the error code 45.  What were the sense codes??

Next, when did the error occur?  Tapemon prints what it is doing for
each tape operation.  Was it "Writing block xxx" or "Capacity"?
Other people are reporting problems with the capacity determination
because apparently not many drives support the READ_CAPACITY command,
and will reject it with "illegal command" sense status.  It's not clear
if that will prevent you from using the drive, though.  Does the
tape move at all?

Send email if you would like to discuss this in a more timely fashion.
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