I've got a DLT8000 with amanda 2.4.2p2 from Red Hat's RH73 packages.

Whenever I try to do an amflush, the dumps terminate with an "out of tape"
error.  This has been true for six tapes in a row.

The amanda log contains:
INFO taper tape Daily7 kb 1310944 fm 2 writing file: Input/output error
FAIL taper vilya /BIG/oracle/oradata/SVIL1 1 [out of tape]

and syslog notes:
Jun  6 13:05:53 bunker kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x8000, 
Current st09:00: sense key Aborted Command
Jun  6 13:05:53 bunker kernel: Additional sense indicates Scsi parity error

I'd be inclined to suspect hardware, except that I can reliably and 
repeatably dd many gigs of junk from /dev/urandom to the tape (after 
having "mt fsf"'ed over the amanda header) without getting any write 
errors at all.

Does anyone have any ideas what I might try to get a better feel for the 
error, and hopefully to fix the error?


Tom Yates