Reinhart Viane wrote:
In addition: the syslog (/var/log/messages)

--Executing yesterdays tape backup--
Sep 21 20:00:00 daeserver su(pam_unix)[7303]: session opened for user amanda
by (uid=0)
Sep 21 20:14:19 daeserver kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc =  a, key =
3, asc = 52, ascq =  0
Sep 21 20:14:20 daeserver last message repeated 79 times
Sep 21 20:14:20 daeserver kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key =
3, asc = 52, ascq =  0
Sep 21 20:14:20 daeserver kernel: ide-tape: Couldn't write a filemark
Sep 21 20:14:20 daeserver kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key =
3, asc = 52, ascq =  0
Sep 21 20:14:20 daeserver kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key =
3, asc = 52, ascq =  0

Please check whether your tape drive works with standard utilities (tar, dd, mt). Something seems to be seriously hosed. Have you already hard-reset everything, by power-cycling?

Alex


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