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[Veritas-bu] Bad Drive or bad Media?

2003-02-17 16:35:30
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Bad Drive or bad Media?
From: Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA (Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:35:30 -0600
sorry i meant error 84


veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote on 02/17/2003 03:33:02 PM:

> The backups end with error 81.
> 
> The threwput is 6200k/sec and the display says that it's cleaning the 
> heads on the drive and this is on a new tape.
> 
> I wonder if the tapes were sitting on a truck at -30F for a couple of 
> hours and that's what killed it.
> Karl-Frédéric Rössing
> Technical Analyst
> Federated Insurance Companies of Canada
> http://www.federated.ca
> 
> veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote on 02/17/2003 01:52:37 
> PM:
> 
> > NB 4.5fp3
> > Exabyte 215M Library
> > 2 Mammoth2 tape drives
> > 
> > I have been having problems with bad media in the library. I'm not 
sure 
> if 
> > it's a bad drive or a bad batch of media. M2 media is rather expensive 

> at 
> > $130/tape. I have had both drives replaced by exabyte. I'm still 
getting 
> 
> > media errors. I have tried 1/2 dozen new tapes and i'm getting media 
> write 
> > error.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Karl
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