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Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to position to end of data on device

2010-11-12 01:29:56
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to position to end of data on device
From: Alexander Kosykh <avkosykh AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Edward M. Markowski" <emm AT edmarkowski DOT com>, bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:26:03 +0300
It was happened with tape which was in the drive and written in time of server reset. There are two tapes with such problem, because server was reseted two times. There are two new tapes, writing first time. I think the problem is the end-of-data lack on this tapes, because server was hard reseted then the drive writing data on tape. It the way to put end-of-data on tape?

Regards,
Alexander.

2010/11/11 Edward M. Markowski <emm AT edmarkowski DOT com>

Is this happening with this one tape only, or all tapes you try in this particulat drive?

If the problem is only with this tape, is the tape old and been used a lot?  If so, then the tape has reached/passed the end of it's usefull life.  If this tape drive is in a library, check the library for events it can provide more info.

LTO tape drives track the number of errors, and I think tape usage, per-cartrage and will throw this error if the tape falls below a quality threshold.  I think the usage counts are written into the RFID that is inside the cartrage.  When we get these messages we "retire" the tape.

Hope this helps.

Ed m.


On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Alexander Kosykh wrote:

Hi.

I run my bacula on FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE (ProLiant ML370 G3) with HP MSL6000
ULTRIUM960. My bacula server was hard reseted then bacula write on tape.
Then server came up and bacula start working it mark tape in "error" with
log message
11-Nov 13:41 backup-sd JobId 401: Error: Unable to position to end of data
on device "ULTRIUM960" (/dev/sa0): ERR=dev.c:956 ioctl MTEOM error on
"ULTRIUM960" (/dev/sa0). ERR=Input/output error.

I test this tape with mt and get this
#mt -f /dev/sa0 eod
mt: /dev/sa0: eod: Input/output error

How can i fix that tape to keep data that already on it and will be able to
append data till end of tape?


Regards,
Alexander.





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