Any chance you have a bad tape or a defective tape drive?
Check /var/adm/messages (if you have it) for hardware errors....



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bptm error messages

write_backup: FROZE media id N49399, could not write
tape mark to begin new image

io_ioctl: ioctl (MTWEOF) failed on media id N49399,
drive index 1, I/O error

io_read_block: read error on media id N49399, drive
index 1 reading header block, Error 0

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