On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 11:30:03AM -0700, Fairchild, David wrote:

Dave, 



What kind of bridges are you using?
What is firmware level on the bridges? 
Are you using fabric or AL topology?

I never heard anything about incompatibility 
between SCSI<->FC bridges and FC HBA. 
Did you get anything helpfull from STK support for your bridges?
Did you try to install newest firmware for your bridges?

STK support for relabelled Crossroads bridges is outpriced 
and rather dissapointing according to my personal expirience. 


Thanks,
Andrew
> Problem solved. Was an issue with Compaq HBAs not being compatible with
> StorageTeks SCSI to Fibre Bridge. Dropped in a Qlogic card and all is good.
> Gotta love fibre, really gotta love Compaq.
> 
> Thanks
> Dave.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fairchild, David [mailto:dfairchild AT firstam DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:04 AM
> To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media Errors.
> 
> 
> Having some strange errors with media. We are demoing a new robot (stk L80
> dlt7000) and are using both new never used media and some expired media. One
> job successfully backs up to a tape then the next time a job tries to write
> to that same tape we get an error then the thing is frozen. The only way to
> write to it again is to unfreeze it then expire it. I've gone as far as
> erasing it in a Backup Exec machine to make sure the thing was write able
> and sure enough on the second attempt to write to it we get another error.
> Here is the error:
> 
> bptm tapemark or blank tape encountered reading media header, drive index 4
> bptm non NetBackup media found in drive index 4, FREEZING DXO446
> 
> Again this has happened with multiple tapes. Same issue same errors.
> v. Netbackup 3.4 Datacenter
> 
> Thanks in advance
> dave.
> 
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