On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> We've seen it and it appears to be the drive itself (LTO-1/Ultrium).
>
> FYI:  This corrupts the backup so when you try to restore later it will
> give you messages about bad tar headers.  Do NOT rely on this backup
> even if you later see 0 exit status.
>
> We even had one drive that it appeared it corrupted EXISTING backups on
> a tape when it mounted it and experienced this issue.   It appears the
> vendor actually sent the drive back to us without correcting this
> behavior so we had to send it back.  We now record the Serial Number and
> problem for all drives we send back so we'll know if we get a
> refurbished drive back later and experience the same problem we'll be
> able to gig the support vendor.
Nasty problem, thanks for the heads up!

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