On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 at 8:57am, Rebecca Pakish wrote > >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: > > Nothing in messages that's telling me anything about my tape drive...
What about the SCSI bus? Any sort of messages at approximately the time of the error? > >On my drive, this just means that the drive needs to be cleaned. > > I was going to give it a good cleaning because it happens with my sun DAT > drive sometimes (dumps failing when the drive is dirty); but never with this > Seagate (until now??). We'll see what happens. Thanks! What sort of drive? -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
