The tape drive is a TZ88 using DLT III & DLT IV tapes. It is on a DEC
Alpha 2100A running 4.0f. I have cleaned the drive twice and powered
down the machine and reseatted the tape unit to no avail.
Darryl Cook wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with the tape drive that I need help on. I have
> searched through all the archives and found some things that are
> relevant but not enough. Lately my backups have been failing with an
> I/O error when it do a mt fsf ## just before the backup scripts run. I
> have noticed that it only fails on tapes that have a lot of data on them
> leading me to believe that possibly the end of tape is being reached
> (although i have doubts about that as well). The tapes that have only a
> days backup on them do not fail. I did a tapex -l? or whatever option
> checks the end-of-file and it comes back normal. Uerf -R reports an
> ERROR EVENT...CAM SCSI
> Class being Tape. Dont really understand if that is an error message
> or not.
>
> Shouldnt the tape drive notify me when it reaches the end of the tape
> and ask for the second tape to be loaded?
>
> Ideas suggestions appreciated
>
> darryl
Received on Fri Sep 29 2000 - 12:51:03 NZST