On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:23:50PM -0500, kkadams AT mmm DOT com wrote:

What patch level are you on? 

We applied 3.4_1 patch and started having problems with 
83/85 errors just on Windows boxes, Unix is doing fine. 
We are at 101 firmware level for our tape drives.

> 
> 
> We are running Netbackup 3.4 Datacenter on a Windows 2000 server
> 
> We have StorageTek L700 with DLT7000 tape drives.
> 
> For some time we were running at firmware version 95 on the tape drives. We 
> had
> issues with the drives raising invalid cleaning messages.
> 
> We then upgraded to firmware version 106 on the tape drives. This fixed our
> invaled cleaning flags but caused backup performance to drop significantly.
> 
> So we backed out our firmware change from 106 to 95.
> 
> We are now getting and abnormally high number of Media errors (status 83).
> 
> Can anyone offer a step by step way to determine the cause of status 83 
> errors?
> 
> 
> Question #2: Is anyone running with Windows 2000 Server service pack 2?
> 
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