Ended up being a bad tape drive.  Thanks for all of your suggestions!!

Peter Viertel wrote:
> Try using /usr/sbin/tapeexercise   and maybe also
> /usr/sbin/tape_perf_test    these tools come with networker and have
> manpages.
>
> My expectations is that no changes to st.conf are necessary to support
> LTO-3 drives - did you try not having anything special before adding
> your customisations? 
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu] 
> On
> Behalf Of Jim Buitt
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 September 2006 6:26 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu
> Subject: [Networker] Problems with Sun L100s w/ HP LTO Ultrium 3 drives,
> NW 7.3.1, & Solaris 10
>
> Hello,
>
> As the subject says, I've got a brand new Sun V440 running Solaris 10,
> with 2 StorEdge L100 tape libraries, each with 2 HP LTO3 drives. 
> Running Networker 7.3.1 (storage node) and the latest recommended
> patchset from Sun.  I've Googled and found different tape drive settings
> for the /kernel/drv/st.conf file, but I have yet to come across the
> correct one.  Here are the settings I'm currently using:
>
> tape-config-list=
>         "HP Ultrium 3", "HP Ultrium LTO3", "ULTRIUM3";
>
> ULTRIUM3 = 2,0x3b,0,0x18659,4,0x44,0x44,0x44,0x44,3,
> 60,1200,600,1200,600,600,18000;
>
> name="st" class="scsi" target=0 lun=0;
> name="st" class="scsi" target=1 lun=0;
> name="st" class="scsi" target=2 lun=0;
> name="st" class="scsi" target=3 lun=0;
> name="st" class="scsi" target=4 lun=0;
> name="st" class="scsi" target=5 lun=0;
> name="st" class="scsi" target=6 lun=0;
> name="st" parent="fp" target=0;
>
>
> Output of the 'inquire' command shows all 4 drives and jbconfig found
> the libraries with no problem.
>
> However, when I attempt a backup of a client, I get the following:
>
> 09/12/06 14:31:42 nsrd: media warning: /dev/rmt/0cbn writing: I/O error,
> at file 2 record 323
> 09/12/06 14:31:42 nsrd: media notice: LTO Ultrium-3 tape 001000L3 on
> /dev/rmt/0cbn is full
> 09/12/06 14:31:42 nsrd: media notice: LTO Ultrium-3 tape 001000L3 used
> 41 MB of 400 GB capacity
> 09/12/06 14:31:47 nsrd: media notice: Volume "001000L3" on device
> "/dev/rmt/0cbn": Block size is 32768 bytes not 131072 bytes. Verify the
> device configuration. Tape positioning by record is disabled.
>
> I've also tried adding the following to the top of my
> /etc/init.d/networker script:
>
> NSR_DEV_BLOCK_SIZE_LTO_ULTRIUM=128
> export NSR_DEV_BLOCK_SIZE_LTO_ULTRIUM
>
>
> and restarted Networker, but this does not help either.
>
> Anybody have a similar working setup, or have any ideas?  Thanks in
> advance!
>
> --
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