could be that the media was written in fixed block mode... check your st.conf 
on solaris, or appropriate driver settings on other os'es...

try touching /usr/openv/volmgr/database/NO_LOCATEBLOCK and see if that helps...

b-

Joshua Fielden wrote:

> I'm seeing a few errors in our logs that match essentially this same format. 
> I can't find this in the archives, or on veritas' site. Can someone enlighten 
> me on what this really means? The frequency with which this happens is too 
> high for it to actually be tapes failing, and a piece of media immediately 
> inserted into the same drive works fine, etc, etc.
>
> 12/21/2000 15:09:02 monster virtue  read error on media id 010927, drive index
>                     1, reading header block, Not enough space
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