Tape Drive Errors (vdump: unable to write to device </dev/nrmt1h>; [5] I/O error)

From: <blakew_at_fullerbrush.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:30:59 -0600

Hello again digital unix world!

Has any one see this type of error before? Is my tape drive failing?

| path : /usr
| dev/fset : /dev/rz0g
| type : ufs
| vdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the start of the epoch
| vdump: Dumping directories
| vdump: Dumping 826961287 bytes, 1312 directories, 24053 files
| vdump: Dumping regular files
|
| vdump: unable to write to device </dev/nrmt1h>; [5] I/O error
| vdump: do you want to retry? y
|
| vdump: unable to write to device </dev/nrmt1h>; [5] I/O error
| vdump: do you want to retry? y

Again Thank you for you time.

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Systems Programer/Administrator | as when they do it with religious conviction.
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Received on Fri Jan 08 1999 - 18:32:42 NZDT