Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-17 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 11.05.2004 at 13:24 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Dave, when was the last time a cleaning tape was cycled thru that > drive? Happens pretty regularly ... and the drive is being prepared for a warranty repair. Now have a replacement drive in use. Thanks everyone for comments/suggstion

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 05:02, Dave Ewart wrote: >Hi, > >Many months of happy activity and then suddenly, last two nights, > the AMANDA job has failed to finish properly - the error in the > AMANDA > >report says: >>> These dumps were to tape Daily-014. >>> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file:

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 11.05.2004 at 22:00 +1000, Phil Homewood wrote: > If it's anything like a DLT4000 drive, Sense4/ASC15/ASCQ1 is "Hardware > error: Random Mechanical Positioning Error" and Sense3/ASC15/ASC2 is > "Medium error: Position error detected by read of medium". > > Or so sayeth my DLT4000 manu

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Phil Homewood
Dave Ewart wrote: > [...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x8000, Deferred st09:00: sns = > f1 4 > [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 1 > [...] kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x1, Current st09:00: sns = f0 3 > [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2 [repeated] > What looks like the pro

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Dave Ewart, on Dienstag, 11. Mai 2004 at 11:47 you wrote to amanda-users: DE> blackhole: ~ # mt -f /dev/st0 status DE> drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape DE> drive status = 1073741824 DE> sense key error = 0 DE> residue count = 0 DE> file number = 0 DE> block number = 0 DE> Tape block size 0 b

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 11.05.2004 at 11:24 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >>> [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2 > >>> [...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x16 0x00 0x00 > >>> +0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00 > >>> 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96 0x32 0x50 0x0

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Hi, Dave, on Dienstag, 11. Mai 2004 at 11:02 you wrote to amanda-users: >>> [...] kernel: ASC=15 ASCQ= 2 >>> [...] kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x03 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x16 0x00 0x00 >>> +0x4f 0xc8 0x15 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x82 0x01 0x55 0x00 >>> 0x00 0x25 0x3b 0x00 0x96 0x32 0x50 0x00

Re: Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Martin Hepworth
Dave Being the person you are I presume you've... cleaned the heads, reseated the connectors, sounds like a drive issue to me - there are some utils on the HP web site for diagnosis they will has you run, but you'll have to dig out a windows box to run them I've got a DLT1 (same drive just

Tape error - how 'bad' is this?

2004-05-11 Thread Dave Ewart
Hi, Many months of happy activity and then suddenly, last two nights, the AMANDA job has failed to finish properly - the error in the AMANDA report says: >> These dumps were to tape Daily-014. >> *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: Input/output error]]. >> Some dumps may have been left in