Its highly likely the directory on the DLT tape is corrupt
therefore a locate will result in sequential read.
I am assuming DLT as its a common problem with DLT's.

There are tools you can use to check and re-create the directory.
See www.dlttools.com

Regards
Peter Marelas

-----Original Message-----
From: Alonzo, Alex [mailto:Alex.Alonzo AT trw DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, 30 August 2001 6:09 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] STK Position Time


To All
We are seeing some very strange behavior with our STK9710 (6drives) attached
to a Sun E-450 running
NB3.4 during backup of our Exchange class. The tape in mounted in the drive
and it takes sometimes up
to 1hr 50 minutes to begin writing, were seeing position times on our
backups up to this amount. I was 
wondering if anyone has ever seen this before ? Help

Alexander Alonzo
E-Enterprise
TRW Space & Electronics Group

*? alex.alonzo AT trw DOT com
*   310.814.6097


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