I'm seeing a lot of these and they're bad media in every case now.  (Had some 
scsi problems 6 months or so ago that were also causing this however)

-Dylan Vanderhoof

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Pengelly [mailto:ray AT BIOMED.QUEENSU DOT CA]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:14 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Tapes being marked as full with hardly any data


I'm running networker 7 which controls a Sun L25 SDLT320 autoloader. I have
been using it for more than a year now without problems. I recently have had
a problem with my tapes getting marked as full after only 2-5GB had been
written to them. I noticed errors had been logged about the tape device.
Here is the output:

 

 

01/12/05 23:07:53 nsrd: media warning: /dev/rmt/0cbn writing: I/O error, at
file

 60 record 1788

01/12/05 23:07:53 nsrd: media notice: sdlt320 tape FTY310S1 on /dev/rmt/0cbn
is 

full

01/12/05 23:07:53 nsrd: media notice: sdlt320 tape FTY310S1 used 5625 MB of
160 

GB capacity

01/12/05 23:12:36 nsrd: media notice: Volume "FTY310S1" on device
"/dev/rmt/0cbn

": Cannot decode block. Verify the device configuration. Tape positioning by
rec

ord is disabled.

 

Is this a tape drive problem? Anyone now how to debug this or have nay
suggestions?

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Ray

 

 

Ray Pengelly

Computing Technologist

CIHR Group In Sensory-Motor Systems

Queen's University

613-533-6000 x74139

ray AT biomed.queensu DOT ca

 

"Wouldn't it be great if life were like windows where you could hit
ctrl-alt-delete and start over when things go wrong?" - Anonymous

 

"How about life being like Unix where they don't mess up in the first place"
- Ray

 


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