Hello all. We have been experiencing some very strange errors on our Sun StorEdge L20 system and were wondering if anyone had similar problems or knew of a solution.
Originally, we had the tape settings to high, allowing the DLT 7000 drive with DLT IV tapes, 34,000 megs with a filemark of 8k. That began to fail when the amount of data reached a significant size. We got the traditional "*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[writing file: short write]]." The filemark was killing us as was the length of the tape. So, we ran the tapetype program and got a new tape size of 19,457 megs. Now this has failed us with a short write. The only thing different from the tapetype suggestion is that we changed the filemark from 0 to 2024 kbytes. Is my filemark issue the problem or is something sinister afoot? Michael Campfield Labstaff Computer Science Department University of Tennessee, Knoxville
