I got few replies from the following people and many thanks. I
disconnected the cable from
   the tape unit (which I did few times before) and connected again and
could do the vdump
   operation with out problems. So I think that it could be loose contact.
My question is at the
   end.
   Joe Fletcher
   Prasad, Sreenivasa
   Peyton Bland
   Jim Belonis
   Alan
   Dr. Thomas.Blinn
QUESTION:
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>  I have received a new XP1000 with Tru64 OS 5.1. I have connected a
DLT7000
>  with a SN-KZPCA-AA(1 CH wide Ultra-2(LVD) ADAPT) to make a backup the
>  system before configuring it. I could make the backup of / (root) FS.
When
>I do the
>  backup(vdump) of /usr FS I get the following message after few minutes:
>
>  vdump: unable to write to device </dev/ntape/tape0_d1>; [5] I/O Error
>  vdump : do you want to retry?
>
>  If I write 'yes' it does vdump 1 min. and comes the same question. I can
>see
>  the following message on Console window:
>
>  SCSI Bus reset.
>
>  The Technician changed the HW adapter. The situation is still the same.
We
>have
>   modified the SCSI-RESET parameter in boot prompt level before doing the
>operation.
>  Any idea why the SCSI makes a reset ?
>
>  regards,
>  Kumar
Received on Sun Jun 17 2001 - 07:38:50 NZST