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[Veritas-bu] error 84 - ioctl (MTWEOF) failed on media id

2004-05-19 11:14:45
Subject: [Veritas-bu] error 84 - ioctl (MTWEOF) failed on media id
From: steve AT warning DOT ca (Steve Mickeler)
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:14:45 -0400 (EDT)
netstat -k shows:

st32,err:
Soft Errors 0 Hard Errors 0 Transport Errors 5 Vendor IBM
Product ULTRIUM-TD2     Revision Revision 38D0 Serial No

st31,err:
Soft Errors 2 Hard Errors 0 Transport Errors 25 Vendor IBM
Product ULTRIUM-TD2     Revision Revision 38D0 Serial No

st30,err:
Soft Errors 2 Hard Errors 0 Transport Errors 21 Vendor IBM
Product ULTRIUM-TD2     Revision Revision 38D0 Serial No

st33,err:
Soft Errors 0 Hard Errors 0 Transport Errors 10 Vendor IBM
Product ULTRIUM-TD2     Revision Revision 38D0 Serial No

# modinfo  | grep tape
 51 78234000  12d04  33   1  st (SCSI tape Driver 1.216)

I'm also seeing Transport Errors on all the drives on all the SSO boxes.


On Wed, 19 May 2004, K Chapman wrote:

> its trying to write the end of file mark and fails...  if this is
> solaris, you can do netstat -k and look for st<tape driver instance #>,
> it will show you error counts on the drive...  you can also look in the
> syslog, it should show the driver returning the write error along with
> the other info.  your getting errors across all your drives and with
> diff tapes...  we had something similar and it turned out to be really
> bad drives (and drive tech, damn exabyte)
>
> Steve Mickeler <steve AT warning DOT ca> wrote:
> Ive been experiencing quite a few error 84 (media write error) lately.
>
> A job will start running and then I'll notice in the activity monitor that
> the "KB per Second" number for some of the streams shows the same number
> ie: 17804 at which point I know that those jobs are going to fail and I'll
> end up with an error 84 for those streams. The job will then start again,
> sometimes using the same media, sometimes a new media, but it will
> generally succeed the second time.
>
> Any ideas as to what is causing the first job to fail ?
>
>
>
> from the bptm log:
>
>
> 00:03:49.218 [7267] <2> io_ioctl: command (0)MTWEOF 1 from (bptm.c.15845)
> on drive index 2
>
> 00:21:49.411 [7267] <16> io_ioctl: ioctl (MTWEOF) failed on media id
> 000041, drive index 2, I/O error (bptm.c.15845)
>
> 00:21:49.412 [7267] <2> log_media_error: successfully wrote to error file
> - 05/19/04 00:21:49 000041 2 WRITE_ERROR
>
> 00:21:49.412 [7267] <2> check_error_history: called from bptm line 15869,
> EXIT_Status = 84
>
> 00:21:49.979 [7267] <2> check_error_history: drive index = 2, media id =
> 000041, time = 05/19/04 00:21:49, both_match = 0, media_match = 1,
> drive_match = 0
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 00:31:45.025 [11412] <2> io_ioctl: command (0)MTWEOF 1 from (bptm.c.15845)
> on drive index 0
>
> 00:49:45.221 [11412] <16> io_ioctl: ioctl (MTWEOF) failed on media id
> 000041, drive index 0, I/O error (bptm.c.15845)
>
> 00:49:45.222 [11412] <2> log_media_error: successfully wrote to error file
> - 05/19/04 00:49:45 000041 0 WRITE_ERROR
>
> 00:49:45.222 [11412] <2> check_error_history: called from bptm line 15869,
> EXIT_Status = 84
>
> 00:49:45.786 [11412] <2> check_error_history: drive index = 0, media id =
> 000041, time = 05/19/04 00:49:45, both_match = 0, media_match = 2,
> drive_match = 0
>
> 00:49:45.992 [11412] <8> check_error_history: FREEZING media id 000041, it
> has had at least 3 errors in the last 12 hour(s)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 00:36:44.063 [15640] <2> io_ioctl: command (2)MTBSF 1 from (bptm.c.17369)
> on drive index 2
>
> 00:36:44.071 [15640] <2> io_ioctl: command (0)MTWEOF 1 from (bptm.c.17395)
> on drive index 2
>
> 00:54:44.272 [15640] <16> io_ioctl: ioctl (MTWEOF) failed on media id
> 000079, drive index 2, I/O error (bptm.c.17395)
>
> 00:54:44.274 [15640] <2> log_media_error: successfully wrote to error file
> - 05/19/04 00:54:44 000079 2 WRITE_ERROR
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 01:03:15.049 [19343] <2> io_ioctl: command (0)MTWEOF 1 from (bptm.c.15845)
> on drive index 1
>
> 01:21:15.243 [19343] <16> io_ioctl: ioctl (MTWEOF) failed on media id
> 000017, drive index 1, I/O error (bptm.c.15845)
>
> 01:21:15.244 [19343] <2> log_media_error: successfully wrote to error file
> - 05/19/04 01:21:15 000017 1 WRITE_ERROR
>
> 01:21:15.244 [19343] <2> check_error_history: called from bptm line 15869,
> EXIT_Status = 84
>
> 01:21:15.813 [19343] <2> check_error_history: drive index = 1, media id =
> 000017, time = 05/19/04 01:21:15, both_match = 0, media_match = 0,
> drive_match = 2
>
> 01:22:20.672 [19343] <8> check_error_history: DOWN'ing drive index 1, it
> has had at least 3 errors in last 12 hour(s)
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 06:31:57.233 [13507] <2> io_ioctl: command (0)MTWEOF 1 from (bptm.c.15845)
> on drive index 0
>
> 06:49:57.432 [13507] <16> io_ioctl: ioctl (MTWEOF) failed on media id
> 000033, drive index 0, I/O error (bptm.c.15845)
>
> 06:49:57.433 [13507] <2> log_media_error: successfully wrote to error file
> - 05/19/04 06:49:57 000033 0 WRITE_ERROR
>
> 06:49:57.433 [13507] <2> check_error_history: called from bptm line 15869,
> EXIT_Status = 84
>
> 06:49:58.006 [13507] <2> check_error_history: drive index = 0, media id =
> 000033, time = 05/19/04 06:49:57, both_match = 0, media_match = 0,
> drive_match = 1
>
>
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