Sounds a lot like when my DLT failed last week. I got a few of the same errors. 
I
has Sun replace it and all is well once again. Good Luck!

adi wrote:

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> Hello
> I have been using amanda for a few months without any problems but suddenly i
> encountered a few. I do a level 0 dump everyday for all the machines on the
> local network. There was no problem of "out of tape" before. I was hit with
> the "out of tape" problem yesterday. So today i tested amanda again but this
> time just dumping the localhost which is about 8gb of data. But it still
> fails with the same error. This is my tapetype in amanda.conf
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> define tapetype daily {
>         comment "just produced by tapetype program"
>         length 34798 mbytes
>         filemark 152 kbytes
>         speed 2578 kbytes
> - --------------------------------------------------------
> I have also tried cleaning the drive a few times because when the dump fails,
> the orange light will start blinking. I also found something in the
> /var/log/messages, here it is.
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> Aug 13 03:06:37 marvin kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x8000,
> Deferred st09:00: sns = f1  3
> Aug 13 03:06:37 marvin kernel: ASC=80 ASCQ= 1
> Aug 13 03:06:37 marvin kernel: Raw sense data:0xf1 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x80
> 0x00 0x16 0x00 0x00 0x1c 0x0d 0x80 0x01 0x00 0x00
> 0x00 0x00 0x83 0x01 0xb1 0x00 0x00 0x16 0xd3 0x00 0x94 0x66 0x17 0x00
> Aug 13 03:06:37 marvin kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x1,
> Current st09:00: sns = f0  3
> Aug 13 03:06:37 marvin kernel: ASC= c ASCQ= 0
> Aug 13 03:06:37 marvin kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x01 0x16 0x00 0x00 0x1c 0x0d 0x0c 0x00 0x00 0x00
> 0x00 0x00 0x83 0x01 0xb1 0x00 0x00 0x16 0xd3 0x00 0x94 0x66 0x17 0x00
> Aug 13 03:06:37 marvin kernel: st0: Error on write filemark.
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>
> Below is the mail that i get from amanda.
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> These dumps were to tape week2.
> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]].
> Some dumps may have been left in the holding disk.
> Run amflush to flush them to tape.
> The next tape Amanda expects to use is: a new tape.
>
> FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
>   localhost  /dev/hda2 lev 0 STRANGE
>   localhost  /dev/hda2 lev 0 FAILED [out of tape]
>
> STATISTICS:
>                           Total       Full      Daily
>                         --------   --------   --------
> Estimate Time (hrs:min)    0:03
> Run Time (hrs:min)         0:42
> Dump Time (hrs:min)        0:28       0:28       0:00
> Output Size (meg)        2593.2     2593.2        0.0
> Original Size (meg)      5386.4     5386.4        0.0
> Avg Compressed Size (%)    48.1       48.1        --
> Filesystems Dumped            1          1          0
> Avg Dump Rate (k/s)      1565.9     1565.9        --
>
> Tape Time (hrs:min)        0:00       0:00       0:00
> Tape Size (meg)             0.0        0.0        0.0
> Tape Used (%)               0.0        0.0        0.0
> Filesystems Taped             0          0          0
> Avg Tp Write Rate (k/s)     --         --         --
>
> FAILED AND STRANGE DUMP DETAILS:
>
> /-- localhost  /dev/hda2 lev 0 STRANGE
> sendbackup: start [localhost:/dev/hda2 level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
> sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
> sendbackup: info end
> ? gtar: ./var/spool/cups/c02102: Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or
> directory
> | Total bytes written: 5648015360 (5.3GB, 3.2MB/s)
> sendbackup: size 5515640
> sendbackup: end
> \--------
>
> NOTES:
>   planner: Last full dump of localhost:/dev/hda2 on tape  overwritten in 1
> run.
>   planner: Preventing bump of localhost:/dev/hda2 as directed.
>   taper: tape week2 kb 231424 fm 1 writing file: Input/output error
>   driver: going into degraded mode because of tape error.
>
> DUMP SUMMARY:
>                                      DUMPER STATS            TAPER STATS
> HOSTNAME     DISK        L ORIG-KB OUT-KB COMP% MMM:SS  KB/s MMM:SS  KB/s
> - -------------------------- --------------------------------- ------------
> localhost    /dev/hda2   0 55156402655488  48.1  28:161565.9   N/A   N/A
>
> (brought to you by Amanda version 2.4.2p2)
> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have no idea why it starts to fail now but not before, is it a hardware
> problem? Appriciate any suggestions from you guys. Please tell me what more
> do i need to include.
>
> Thanks and regards
> junaidi
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