I'm having problems writing to a tlz07-da external tape drive.
The first symptom of trouble was parity errors. The drive
became unusable so I swapped out one drive and installed
another.
Now the bahavior is that I can access the drive fine and
am able to do partial dumps until vdump quits with:
"vdump: unable to write to device (/dev/nrmt0h): [5] I/O error"
"vdump: so you want to retry?"
I have changed(cleaned the tape drive ) media severals times and still get
the error.
Until the initial parity errors it was all working fine for about
2 years.
The system is running DU4.0a.
Any ideas?
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Karen Y. Byrd C511 Richards Bldg.
Systems Manager 3700 Hamilton Wlk.
Univ. of Pa. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6062
School of Medicine Voice: 215/898-6865
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and Operations Group
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Received on Mon Mar 15 1999 - 17:32:07 NZDT