On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 at 12:52pm, 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. > > *** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: I/O error]].
You've got a system error of some sort -- amanda is just telling you what the OS told it. Is there anything in the system logs? I/O errors can be lots of things. Of course, check your SCSI cable lengths, termination, etc. Try dumping the big partition by hand. Try cleaning the drive (I know it's new, but what the hey). And be sure you've sacrificed the proper color goat. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
