Hello Bob,

I think, you should check binary log for scsi reset events.

Tuesday, March 25, 2003, 12:32:16 PM, you wrote:

BP> Networker server: E450 running Solaris 8
BP> Tape Library: StorageTek L700e, 6 x HP LTO ultrium 1 drives, firmware level
BP> E225/005.074

BP> I flagged this problem last week and it's happened a couple of times since.
BP> Briefly, during a backup Networker reports a tape as "full", and on the
BP> nwadmin screen it reports the drive as "writing, finding eom". At this
BP> point the drive hangs and has to be power cycled to eject the tape.

BP> This started happening about 3 weeks ago and we've had maybe 5
BP> occurrencies. The library has been in place since last August. We've had no
BP> h/w or s/w changes in recent months.

BP> Interestingly, there is nothing reported in the daemon log or the messages
BP> file. iostat does report some transport errors on the drive that it happens
BP> on. It's happened on 5 of the 6 drives so far which spans all 3 SCSI cards.

BP> Imation tapes are in use. It's happened on different tapes from different
BP> batches.

BP> Sun, STK, Legato are all saying "It's not me!"

BP> Any ideas?









BP> Sun, STK, Legato are all saying "It's not me!"

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