>Look in /var/log/messages (or the output of 'dmesg') -- there's probably >an entry from the tape driver letting you know what the error was. E.g., >when this happens with my Eliant 820, I get:
Nothing in messages that's telling me anything about my tape drive... >On my drive, this just means that the drive needs to be cleaned. I was going to give it a good cleaning because it happens with my sun DAT drive sometimes (dumps failing when the drive is dirty); but never with this Seagate (until now??). We'll see what happens. Thanks! rap
