I might just try that, thanks 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hellier [mailto:rlh AT lsil DOT com] 
Sent: 10 December 2003 16:35
To: Khan Imran A
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] tape spanning

Khan Imran A wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> We have a 16 Windows 2000 clients backing up on dedicated gigabit LAN to
> window 2000 backup server which has a FC card installed. A Scalar 100
> library which has SAN module and so takes FC from backup server and
converts
> to SCSI connected to 4 LTO drives
> 
> This has been working OK for 4 months and suddenly started getting mainly
> media write 84 error and some error 85 First it was for one or two of the
> scheduled jobs now it occurs on randomly across different jobs. The drives
> keep getting 'Downed any afterwards ideas
> 
> When looking at the logs and reports the following is written
> 
> "Tar write error (10054)"


Imran,
        A long shot (but one that has impacted us with a somewhat similar
config) is (intermittent) failure of the FC -> SCSI bridge in the
library.

Are there any diagnostics you can run that would check this out?


Good Luck!

Richard.