On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:48:53PM -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > It looks like btape is not happy. > > > > Error reading block: ERR=block.c:1008 Read zero bytes at 326:0 on device > > "Superloader-Drive" (/dev/nst0). > > > > Are your tapes old (still good)? Did you clean the drive? Latest Firmware? The drive requested cleaning just yesterday which I did. I'm not sure how old the tape in question really is. I used a dell update utility and it updated the drive to v2181 which seems to be the latest for a half-height SCSI tape drive. 30MB/s seems a bit low to me - it should be able to do 60MB/s per spec. Or is that just theory vs. real world?
> I would add are you using LTO3 tapes or LTO2 tapes? They are labelled 400GB/800GB - all of the same kind, so they're definitely LTO3. The autoloader says: "Drive Idle Gen 3 Data" in it's web interface, so yes, I'm sure. I could check a very new tape tomorrow or try a shiny new one, just to be sure. Thanks so far, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
