Hi Chris,


Yes, I do have that directive in my bp.conf:

ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = tar


Thanks.

- Young


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Jay Manders [mailto:cjmanders AT lbl DOT gov] 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:11 PM
To: Song, Young
Cc: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Weird tape drive behavior



Just checking...you do have this directive in your
/usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf, right?


ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE = TAR




hth

--Chris





>
>I just installed a new tape library Sun L100 with 3 x LTO-2 drives and one
>of the drives keeps showing weird behaviors.
>
>I believe I have all the proper SCSI terminations, drive mapping, etc.
>
>It tries to mount a tape, position it, but sits there for a long time and
>fails with the following error:
>
>Positioning L01101 to file
>Error bptm (pid=9063) ioctl (MTWEOF) failed on media id L01101, drive index
>0, I/O error (bptm.c.17692)
>Error bptm (pid=9063) FROZE media id L01101, could not write tape mark to
>begin new image
>
>When I tried using the mt command and run a tar backup on the drive, it
went
>successful and was OK when I tried positioning a tape back and forth to see
>if I could back up or restore, so I tend to believe that the drive itself
>may not be bad.
>
>
>Any suggestion?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>- Young
>
>
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