Tape drive status returns I/O error in RHEL 8.10 , RHEL 9.4, and RHEL 9.5

Issue

• When running the below commands the following errors are noticed:

$ date ; sudo mt -f /dev/st0 status ; date
Thu May 30 13:38:16 EDT 2024
/dev/st0: Input/output error
Thu May 30 13:38:17 EDT 2024

# for i in {0..1}; do mt -f /dev/st$i status; done; sleep 32; for i in {0..3}; do mt -f /dev/st$i status; done

There are no tapes in the drives
/dev/st0: Input/output error
/dev/st1: Input/output error
/dev/st0: Input/output error
/dev/st1: Input/output error
/dev/st2: Input/output error
/dev/st3: Input/output error