Yup.  That's what I would call it, a bad tape.  Unless 
of course you are getting errors continuously on this 
drive?  Then it may be the hardware.


Quoting Dale Kramer <Dale_Kramer AT steris DOT com>:

>      Can anyone tell me what this message means.  Bad 
tape, maybe???
>
>      09/20/00 05:08:43 apollo apollo  ioctl (MTWEOF) 
failed on media id
>      000722,
>      drive index 0, I/O error (bptm.c.13837)
>      09/20/00 05:08:43 apollo apollo  FROZE media id 
000722, could not
>      write tape
>      mark to begin new image
>
>
>      thanx,
>
>      dale
>
>      Dale Kramer
>      STERIS Corp.
>      dale-kramer AT steris DOT com
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