Bob,

Do youhave any SCSI events in the /var/adm/messages ?

Regs,
Greg


Bob Payne wrote:
>
> Networker server: E450 running Solaris 8
> Tape Library: StorageTek L700e, 6 x HP LTO ultrium 1 drives, firmware level
> E225/005.074
>
> I flagged this problem last week and it's happened a couple of times since.
> Briefly, during a backup Networker reports a tape as "full", and on the
> nwadmin screen it reports the drive as "writing, finding eom". At this
> point the drive hangs and has to be power cycled to eject the tape.
>
> This started happening about 3 weeks ago and we've had maybe 5
> occurrencies. The library has been in place since last August. We've had no
> h/w or s/w changes in recent months.
>
> Interestingly, there is nothing reported in the daemon log or the messages
> file. iostat does report some transport errors on the drive that it happens
> on. It's happened on 5 of the 6 drives so far which spans all 3 SCSI cards.
>
> Imation tapes are in use. It's happened on different tapes from different
> batches.
>
> Sun, STK, Legato are all saying "It's not me!"
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Sun, STK, Legato are all saying "It's not me!"
>
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