Hello,

do you have a switch/fabric between your tapes and your HBAs ?

If so, take a look at the switch errors, maybe a problem has occured.

If Networker cannot reaches the tape during a variable time, it considers that 
writing is no longer possible, then puts the tape in a full status.

Denis

----- "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> a écrit :

> Perhaps some of you can help me uncover a mystery. I have a Spectra
> T50e
> tape library with two LTO-5 tape drives with the hardware encryption
> feature enabled. This tape library is used exclusively to do
> group-based
> cloning in NetWorker 7.6 SP1 Power Edition on a Red Hat Linux 64-bit
> Dell
> server. The drives are connected to the NetWorker server via fibre
> channel.
> 
> Last night, one of the three tapes that received clone data was
> marked
> full much too soon. All I can find in the /nsr/logs/daemon.raw file is
> a
> notice that this tape was marked full prematurely. This was the first
> tape
> to be written to that night. I did not notice any problems with the
> other
> two tapes that were used last night.
> 
> I am wondering why that occurred. Could this particular tape be
> defective?
> Nothing out of the ordinary showed up in the /var/log/messages file
> last
> night. The tape in question is only about two months old and it has
> no
> aborted safe sets on it.
> 
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