On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Johan Booysen <[email protected]> wrote: > I would really appreciate some advice on how to troubleshoot this problem.
1256320978.957231: taper: putresult: 18 NEW-TAPE 1256321083.042522: taper: putresult: 10 FAILED It looks like the taper ran for about 105s before failing, so it probably encountered an EIO or other tape error at that point. I would guess this is a SCSI error, because the device doesn't seem to recover after that -- all dumps fail immediately. I would check kernel logs for info about the errors, and also try using 'dd' to write to the drive. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
