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[Veritas-bu] Troubleshooting Bad Drive, Error 84 and 85

2001-10-03 17:15:09
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Troubleshooting Bad Drive, Error 84 and 85
From: MSyed AT xo DOT com (MSyed AT xo DOT com)
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:15:09 -0700
Hi All,
I am getting "Error 84 or 85" Media Read or Write errors occassionally.
This means that either there is something wrong with the media or the
drives.
There are no "clean" lights on any of my drives.  I have a Storagetek L180
with 8 drives.
How do I troubleshoot the drives?  In other words, can I start a manual
backup which will direct the tape to a certain drive I want?  For example,
let's say I want the backup to happen on drive 3, can I direct the tape to
that drive?  Is there such a thing in Netbackup 3.4?
That way I can check all my drives and determine which drive is not reading
or writing the tape correctly.  If this is a media problem, then it's a
different story altogether.  But my suspicion at this point in time are the
drives and troubleshooting the drives.
If you have any other ideas on troubleshooting the drives, please let me
know.
This is a Solaris 7, E450 system running Netbackup 3.4.  The media manager
and the Netbackup master is the same system.
Thanks

Mukarram Syed
UNIX System Administrator


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