Another less likely possibility is that the drive itself is starting to
fail or perhaps just needs cleaning.

Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of MIchael Leone
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:43 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] HELP??? New to Legato/Networker, Not sure what
this means...

EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
06/19/2008 11:00:07 AM:

> I am new to Networker and Legato, but apparently we have an issue 
> where verification on a tape is failing.  I'm not sure what this 
> means.  Is this telling me i have a bad tape? 

Yes, I believe so.

> 12/28/07 06:54:03 nsrd: media warning: verification of volume 
> "005024", volid 1718935447 failed, read open error: drive status is 
> Drive reports no error - but state is unknown
> 12/28/07 06:54:03 nsrd: media notice: verification of volume 
> "005024", volid 1718935447 failed, volume is being marked as full.
> 12/28/07 06:54:03 nsrd: write completion notice: Writing to volume 
> 005024 complete
> 12/28/07 06:54:03 nsrd: media notice: Save set (175431653) dtclu:
> /d12/jax802/oracle/backups volume 005024 on /dev/ntape/tape3_d1 is 
> being terminated because: Media verification failed
> 12/28/07 06:54:03 nsrd: dtclu:/d12/jax802/oracle/backups done saving
> to pool 'DefaultSDLT' (005024) 7328 MB
>  [Question]  [Question]

If it were me, I'd re-label this tape, before using it again. And I
would 
run the backup to tape again.

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