On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Hello, - - - On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Stephen Carville wrote: - - > I ran tapetype on my new AIT2 drive and it reported a length of 43778 - > mbytes uncompressed. I ran a test backup of about 20G and amanda - > fails with a write error at about 7G on the first tape and at 4G on - > the second tape. Any ideas why this is happening? Amanda works fine - > with the AIT1 drive and 170m tape on the same machine. - > - > The file system it fails on about 17G. - > - - I just had the same issue, sorta. My problem was that my AIT-2 drive was - in an external enclosure that was causing the drive to reset itself. - Verify you do not have a bad SCSI cable. Is the tape drive on the same - SCSI bus as the holding disk? Can you successfully run "mt" comands?
Since I posted I did some more experimentation. At first it looked like a hardware error but I am able to backup larger file systems with no problems. Right now I doubt that hardware is the problem. I can run mt and mtx commands fine. The tape drive and scsi changer are on a bus all by themselves. The issue might be some directories that contain upwards of 10K tiny files. I'm testing that right now. -- -- Stephen Carville UNIX and Network Administrator Ace Flood USA 310-342-3602 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
