On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 at 5:30pm, Jerry wrote > Solaris > Exabyte EZ17 Autoloader w/m2 drive > 225m AME self clean tapes > Using dump.... > > Once it's busted can't even tar to the tape, either > gets stuck in the middle or just starts freaking out > and sounds like the tape is lost seeking around. > > As far as syslog, I got a bunch of scsi errors but > it's hard to decipher which ones were related since it > ended up powering off the drive and on to stop it from > resetting and clanking the tape back and forth. The > drive has never really been used and the tapes > shouldn't be that old, considering the admin before me > never even got it to control the changer.
All I can say is, ouch. As others have said, start taking a good look at your hardware -- the changer, the cables, termination, the HBA... This sounds like a multi-goat problem. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
