Hi, Young,

Is there anything in /var/adm/messages? I'll bet there's a bit more detail
about the nature of the error, if it's something returned from the drive or
driver. 

You might want to use robtest to make sure the library robot can move tapes
around and that it puts tapes in the correct drives.

After you've eliminated a bad tape (media) and you're absolutely sure that
everything is setup correctly, it is likely a hardware issue. Try swapping
the drives around to see if the problem moves. (Assuming scsi direct
attached drives). 

Have fun solving the problem and let us know what you find.

Mickey

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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Song, Young
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:29 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Weird tape drive behavior




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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