On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 at 8:32am, Rebecca Pakish wrote > Hi all.... > > I have been using amanda 2.4.2p2 on my 7.2 RH server for quite some time now > backing up both linux and solaris clients. > Today something strange happened... > a tape that has been in rotation and working properly all of sudden ran out > of space? *snip*
> As you can see my tape size was cut in half all of a sudden. I haven't made > any changes to the configuration or drive... > Maybe it's just a media error...but I wanted to throw it out here just in > case. Look in /var/log/messages (or the output of 'dmesg') -- there's probably an entry from the tape driver letting you know what the error was. E.g., when this happens with my Eliant 820, I get: Apr 11 03:12:57 chaos kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x2ba, Deferred st09:00: sense key Medium Error Apr 11 03:12:57 chaos kernel: Additional sense indicates Excessive write errors Apr 11 03:12:57 chaos kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Current st09:00: sense key Medium Error Apr 11 03:12:57 chaos kernel: Additional sense indicates Excessive write errors Apr 11 03:12:57 chaos kernel: st0: Error on write filemark. On my drive, this just means that the drive needs to be cleaned. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
