Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 at 11:39am, Frank Smith wrote
> 
>> Just trying to verify that I'm having an actual hardware error.
>> Backups on one tape server (that's been in use for years) failed with
>> the following:
>> taper: tape archive03 kb 0 fm 0 writing filemark: Input/output error
>> taper: retrying q42:/d5/backups/oracle/Dmp.0 on new tape: [writing filemark: 
>> Input/output error]
>> taper: tape archive04 kb 1796480 fm 1 writing file: Input/output error
>>
>> and everything remained on the holdingingdisk.  From using dd I can
>> see that Amanda is successfully updating the date in the header block.
>> I can successfully run amlabel on the tapes, and I can use tar to
>> write and read a tar file to/from the tape.  However, 'mt eof' fails,
>> and gives the same error in the system logs as when Amanda runs:
>>
>> kernel: st1: Error with sense data: <6>st1: Current: sense key: Medium Error
>> kernel:     Additional sense: Write error
>> kernel: Info fld=0x1
>>
>> Is it definitely a drive failure when data can be written but not
>> EOF marks, or is there something else I should check before replacing
>> the drive?
> 
> What sort of drive?  Does it just need a cleaning?
> 
Oops, sorry I left that out:  AIT3
What is different about writing filemarks (which fails) and writing large
streams of data (which works)?

Frank

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