Just for the archives, evidently the inability to write a filemark is a known failure mode on the AIT-3 drives (affecting about 1% of the drives, according to the library support folks). However, the really bizarre thing is that it can be fixed with a firmware update that can be installed via a utility downloadable from the Sony web site.
Frank 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? > > Thanks, > Frank > -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
