We too are at 3.4_1.

Do you get erroneous cleaning flags with firmware version 101?


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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:23:50PM -0500, kkadams AT mmm DOT com wrote:

What patch level are you on?

We applied 3.4_1 patch and started having problems with
83/85 errors just on Windows boxes, Unix is doing fine.
We are at 101 firmware level for our tape drives.

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>
> We are running Netbackup 3.4 Datacenter on a Windows 2000 server
>
> We have StorageTek L700 with DLT7000 tape drives.
>
> For some time we were running at firmware version 95 on the tape drives. We
had
> issues with the drives raising invalid cleaning messages.
>
> We then upgraded to firmware version 106 on the tape drives. This fixed our
> invaled cleaning flags but caused backup performance to drop significantly.
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> So we backed out our firmware change from 106 to 95.
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> We are now getting and abnormally high number of Media errors (status 83).
>
> Can anyone offer a step by step way to determine the cause of status 83
errors?
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> Question #2: Is anyone running with Windows 2000 Server service pack 2?
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