Hi Austin,


I'm using Data Center 4.5 FP8 on Sun Solaris 8.

Thanks.

- Young


-----Original Message-----
From: Austin Murphy [mailto:austin.murphy AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:43 AM
To: Song, Young
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Weird tape drive behavior

Which version of NetBackup?  What OS?

NetBackup 5.1 MP2 on Solaris had a problem with "positioning" I think.
 MP3 or MP3A fixed it.  At least thats what our consultant told us.

Austin

On 3/23/06, Song, Young <Young.Song AT novellus DOT com> wrote:
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> I just installed a new tape library Sun L100 with 3 x LTO-2 drives and 
> one of the drives keeps showing weird behaviors.
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> I believe I have all the proper SCSI terminations, drive mapping, etc.
>
> It tries to mount a tape, position it, but sits there for a long time 
> and fails with the following error:
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> Positioning L01101 to file
> Error bptm (pid=9063) ioctl (MTWEOF) failed on media id L01101, drive 
> index 0, I/O error (bptm.c.17692) Error bptm (pid=9063) FROZE media id 
> L01101, could not write tape mark to begin new image
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> When I tried using the mt command and run a tar backup on the drive, 
> it went successful and was OK when I tried positioning a tape back and 
> forth to see if I could back up or restore, so I tend to believe that 
> the drive itself may not be bad.
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> Any suggestion?
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> Thanks!
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> - Young
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