Bad tape?    Try a new blank tape.

Is cleaning light on?  If so use a cleaning tape, make sure cleaning
tape is not expired (20 passes only)

Bad Drive?  Do you have a second drive to try?   Do you have a
maintenance contract under which you can get the drive replaced?

OS problem - on windows  two common issues we see on this mailing list -
1. RMM service is on - the removable media manager can interfere in
operation of legato.   2. block size issues - the tape you are writing
to my have been written on another host at a bigger block size than your
windows server is configured to support - this would also be remedied by
using new tapes.

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of kurianv
Sent: Wednesday, 22 October 2008 7:16 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Backup error

The tape drive is connected through normal SCSI connection and the
Networker server version used is 7.2. I think its an hardware probs..but
wat if its an os problem. This Networker is running on windows 2000 AS .
So wat os issues it cud be? Cud u comment ?

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