On Thu, 9 May 2002 at 9:01am, Doug Silver wrote > On Thu, 9 May 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > Amanda is just telling you what the OS told it (I/O error). You should be > > able to find more details in your system logs. > > > > > Ok, found this, can you translate? This is a DDS4 drive on a FreeBSD 4.4 > system: > > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR asc:50,0 > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): Write append error > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:50,0 > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): Write append error > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:50,0 > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): Write append error > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): failed to write terminating >filemark(s) > May 8 00:07:57 dev /kernel: (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, > REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. > > Amanda worked fine last night, which would lead me to think that there's a problem > with that tape, even though the tape has only been used 20-30 times. I would say it's either a bad tape or a drive that needs to be cleaned. If it worked last night with a new tape, then I'd say the former. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
