"Mark Nienberg" <gmane AT tippingmar DOT com> kirjoitti viestissä 
news:g2mhki$vr1$1 AT ger.gmane DOT org...
> Just when I thought I had seen every possible error, this comes along:
>
> 07-Jun 01:12 khyber-dir JobId 2118: Start Backup JobId 2118,
> Job=gecko.2008-06-07_01.05.11
>
> 07-Jun 01:12 khyber-dir JobId 2118: Using Device "VXA3drive"
>
> 07-Jun 01:32 khyber-sd JobId 2118: Fatal error: Unable to write EOF. 
> ERR=dev.c:1669
> ioctl MTWEOF error on "VXA3drive" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error.
>
> 07-Jun 01:33 khyber-sd JobId 2118: Error: Error writing final EOF to tape. 
> This
> Volume may not be readable.
> dev.c:1669 ioctl MTWEOF error on "VXA3drive" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output 
> error.
>
>
> At the time this happened, /var/log/messages had this:
>
> Jun  7 01:12:13 khyber kernel:  target4:0:0: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s 
> ST (25 ns,
> offset 32)
> Jun  7 01:32:52 khyber kernel: st0: Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
> Jun  7 01:32:52 khyber kernel: Info fld=0xf8e59c01
> Jun  7 01:32:52 khyber kernel: st0: Add. Sense: Write append error
> Jun  7 01:33:59 khyber kernel: st0: Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
> Jun  7 01:33:59 khyber kernel: Info fld=0x1
> Jun  7 01:33:59 khyber kernel: st0: Add. Sense: Write append error
>
>
> After some SCSI errors two weeks ago, I swapped the SCSI card for a 
> backup. Now that
> this new error happened I swapped the cable and terminator, so maybe if 
> this is a
> SCSI problem then I will find that it is fixed.  Or could it be something 
> else?
>
> Oh, and is the tape really unreadable?  It had valid data from a previous 
> backup on
> it before this job died with the error.
>
> The drive is a VXA-320 inside an Exabyte Packetloader autochanger.
>

When the drive was cleaned last time? If you don't know, vxatool 
(downloadable from Exabyte's site) can check this. It also reports the 
firmware revision...

Regards,
Timo 



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