I've got a DLT8000 with amanda 2.4.2p2 from Red Hat's RH73 packages. Whenever I try to do an amflush, the dumps terminate with an "out of tape" error. This has been true for six tapes in a row.
The amanda log contains: INFO taper tape Daily7 kb 1310944 fm 2 writing file: Input/output error FAIL taper vilya /BIG/oracle/oradata/SVIL1 1 [out of tape] and syslog notes: Jun 6 13:05:53 bunker kernel: st0: Error with sense data: Info fld=0x8000, Current st09:00: sense key Aborted Command Jun 6 13:05:53 bunker kernel: Additional sense indicates Scsi parity error I'd be inclined to suspect hardware, except that I can reliably and repeatably dd many gigs of junk from /dev/urandom to the tape (after having "mt fsf"'ed over the amanda header) without getting any write errors at all. Does anyone have any ideas what I might try to get a better feel for the error, and hopefully to fix the error? Tom Yates
