Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 at 11:39am, Frank Smith wrote > >> Just trying to verify that I'm having an actual hardware error. >> Backups on one tape server (that's been in use for years) failed with >> the following: >> taper: tape archive03 kb 0 fm 0 writing filemark: Input/output error >> taper: retrying q42:/d5/backups/oracle/Dmp.0 on new tape: [writing filemark: >> Input/output error] >> taper: tape archive04 kb 1796480 fm 1 writing file: Input/output error >> >> and everything remained on the holdingingdisk. From using dd I can >> see that Amanda is successfully updating the date in the header block. >> I can successfully run amlabel on the tapes, and I can use tar to >> write and read a tar file to/from the tape. However, 'mt eof' fails, >> and gives the same error in the system logs as when Amanda runs: >> >> kernel: st1: Error with sense data: <6>st1: Current: sense key: Medium Error >> kernel: Additional sense: Write error >> kernel: Info fld=0x1 >> >> Is it definitely a drive failure when data can be written but not >> EOF marks, or is there something else I should check before replacing >> the drive? > > What sort of drive? Does it just need a cleaning? > Oops, sorry I left that out: AIT3 What is different about writing filemarks (which fails) and writing large streams of data (which works)?
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