Hi, Dave,

on Dienstag, 11. Mai 2004 at 11:02 you wrote to amanda-users:

>>> [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2
>>> [...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x16 0x00 
>>> 0x00
>>> +0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00
>>> 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96 0x32 0x50 0x00
>>> [...] kernel: st0: Error on write filemark.

DE> What looks like the problem here?  The drive itself?  The SCSI
DE> controller?  We have a HP DLT-40 drive on an Adaptec 29160 controller.
DE> There have been no configuration changes to the server.

Sounds like a SCSI-problem to me.

Try to communicate with the drive outside of AMANDA.

What does

mt -f /dev/st0 status

tell you? (You did not mention the OS, but the message points to
Linux).

Check cabling, sometimes it is enough to just reconnect everything
(after shutdown ;-) ).

I am not sure if this could also happen with a bad tape ... as it
tells you the device is failing to write a filemark.

Maybe try another tape, but as you said that this happens since 2 days
(and 2 tapes, I assume, or is it still the same?) the scsi-system
seems to be responsible.

-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor AT oops.co DOT at