I forgot to thank everybody on the first summary
Thanks to
stan <stan_at_astro.temple.edu>
Lindsay.Wakeman_at_bl.uk (Lindsay Wakeman)
Selden E Ball Jr <SEB_at_LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU>
and also to:
Ian Mortimer for previous summary.
I think that I had some good pointers as to where to look for these
errors.
I went and looked at the archives (which I should have done first) what
I found there was this:
" All said much the same: when this happens frequently or is
persistent it indicates a disk going bad. The recommendation
was to probe the disk with scu so I did:
$ scu -f /dev/rrz17c
scu> show defects grown"
This pretty much refers to hard disks only.
The answers that I got back from the list today were basically
"I am not sure what that error means, but try running a cleaning
tape
through the tape drive in question if its a DLT drive. Also, make sure
the tape cartridge does not have its write protect tab set. If all else
fails, try a different tape cartridge. If that too fails, call for
hardware service. SCSI CAM errors usually refer to a hardware problem."
> Try DECevent (can be downloaded from Compaq site if you haven't got
it).
>
> When installed, use something like 'dia -R -o full' to give a full
breakdown
> of
> events, in latest-first order
>
> uerf -R -o full | more
> to see details in reverse order. (But Compaq no longer supports uerf)
> or if you've installed DECevent
> ( available at http://www.support.compaq.com/svctools/decevent/ )
> dia -R -o full | more
> but dia is not supported on servers, so you may need to install WebES.
> see http://www.support.compaq.com/svctools/webes/index.html
>
Summary: This looks like a hardware problem. We did try a cleaning tape
and also we tried new media. When I was poking around it looked like the
power plug was loose. I replaced that and will do a test again to night
and see what happens. (The tape drive was replaced by TS on 8-11-00)
--
Ron Bramblett
Systems Administrator
The Fuller Brush Company
Received on Thu Aug 24 2000 - 15:15:18 NZST