Could it be a bad tape?  I've got 3 SuperLoader3s in production and they
do pretty well for remote site backups / not a lot of data.  I had a
similar issue in our UK office, and it turned out the drive was bad (it
wouldn't write any data to the tape) and Quantum shipped out an entirely
new unit.  Given that you can write some data I'd think a bad tape but
who knows?  Do you have the SL3's nic hooked up?  You can checkout the
hardware logs for more information.
 
-Jonathan
 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jerry
Rioux
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:45 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Driver issue?



I have a quantum super loader 3 attached to a SUN v250 running solaris
8, which is the master server. Backups start up just fine and it starts
writing. Then after about 12-15gb the backup fails with an 84 media
write error and it freezes the tape. This happens on several different
tapes (lto3).

Does this sound like a driver issue? Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Thanks 

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