On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, John R. Jackson wrote: > >*** A TAPE ERROR OCCURRED: [[closing tape: Input/output error]]. > > This comes from a couple of places in Amanda, but the most likely is that > Amanda was all done and was just finishing up. The tape is *probably* > OK, but I wouldn't bet everything on it.
Depending on the the comments after I fill in some blanks, it'll probably get repleaced anyway. > > taper: FATAL syncpipe_get: w: unexpected EOF > > I think this is fixed in the current sources. Noted. > > > >Feb 8 07:25:48 storage /kernel: (sa0:bt0:0:1:0): CCB 0xcde9e300 - timed out > > > >Now, this sort of looks like a bad tape. ... > > Or some other kind of hardware problem. Timeouts are a bad thing. Other staff put the tape drive on a buslogic scsi card last night, to hopefully solve a crash problem we were having. Could it be causing the problem? (I probably should have mentioned that in the initial email.) If our problem happens again tonight, we'll probably know where the issue lies. > You left out one important line from the E-mail. The one in the NOTES > section that shows how much data taper wrote before it got into trouble. > If that's close to your tape size, then you may have just banged into > the end. If it's way short, then it's a hardware or media problem. Beg pardon, here's the missing bit: taper: tape NOMDLT06 kb 3012224 fm 17 writing file: Input/output error The tapes are AIT-1 25/50M, no compression that I can tell. Thanks, --Ruth Anne
