On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:03:41PM +0100, Moritz Both wrote: > > > Hi after 2 years of struggling with this crap and getting no where, can > > anyone help me figure out what is causing these errors. > > > it seems to be random doesn't matter which tape or drive I use they all > > do it. even changing machine and scsi controllers doesn't fix the > > problem. > > > is it something I'm doing wrong. > > Which operating system do you use? Which version/s? Which tape devices > have you tried? Which SCSI controllers? Did the other tape backup > product work?
oh yeah sorry, its running on Debian Linux (sid) using amanda 2.4.2p2
the tape drives are a Sony DDS3 SDT9000 and a HP DDS4 Autoloader.
the scsi controllers tried are a adaptec aha1510 and an adaptec 2940.
the other tape backup product was NovaNet8 and it worked.
> To me this looks like the tape device can't read the files on tape
> ("I/O error") and tar complains as a result of that ("Unexpected
> EOF"). afaik amverify tends to mix up error message order in its
> reports.
I really don't know where to go from here, I've tried brand new tapes as
well.
since I sent the message I've moved the HP tape drive to another machine
which has a symbios logic scsi controller and different scsi cable. and
get the same problems. its even on a seperate channel on the scsi
controller.
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