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[Veritas-bu] Error 174

2002-06-24 05:14:28
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Error 174
From: Jonathan.Geibel AT disney DOT com (Geibel, Jonathan)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:14:28 +0200
This error is *usually* the case when your tape drives are not set to
"variable-length writing"

which is set in the /kernel/drv/st.conf file in solaris 

doing a "man st" and looking for "ST_VARIABLE" will show you which bit to
set.. 

sometimes there is a dip switch or something on the tape drive itself that
can override that value as well..

we also had a case where both of those were set properly and we still got
an "error 174"..  which ended up being bad fiber channel code (on
fiber-channel drives) that was overwriting that bit..

anyway, that's what we've run into thus far with those errors..  it's
usually just the st.conf file being misconfigured..

although the "it is not a multiple of 512" is a bit different that what
I've seen before..

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 Shahar.Shaynis AT ecitele DOT com wrote:

> Help ! :)
> 
> Does anyone have a "creative" solution/explanation for error 174 "Media
> Manager - system error occurred"
> 
> What also appeared in the bptm log on the master was :
> 22:29:38 [3591] <2> bind_on_port_addr: bound to port 55515
> 22:29:38 [3591] <2> check_authentication: no authentication required
> 22:29:39 [3591] <32> fill_buffer: attempted to write 161 gigabytes,
> 1634664605 bytes, it is not a multiple of 512
> 22:29:39 [3589] <2> child_wait: SIGCLD: exit=174, signo=0 core=no, pid=3591
> 
> What the hell does it mean ? and how can I avoid it ?
> 
> Few things to mention:
> 
> This happened during an attempt to run a full backup of Lotus Notes , using
> Lotus Notes Backup Module.
> Both master and Lotus server are Solaris8 64bit
> NetBackup 34_3 (Normal & Module)
> STK700 Library
> DLT7000 Drives.
> 
> 
> Thanks!!!!
> 
> Shahar Shaynis
> Backup Team
> ECI Telecom/Israel
> 
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