On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 08:55, Alan Brown wrote: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Slartibartfast wrote: > > > This morning I swapped out the tapes and tried again. Here is the > > resulting error message. Question is; is this a tape media, or drive > > error? > > At the risk of stating the obvious: > > Check ALL your scsi cables and terminators. > Everything is brand new, 6ft cables. However I'll check everything Monday.
> The single most common cause for errors on scsi devices is cabling - bad > terminators, over-long cables or excessively long device-internal tails. > > In some cases, that means bad terminators on the scsi controller card > too, so beware(*) > > If possible, try putting the tape drive and robot on separate busses - > even if you have to put an old cruddy scsi card into the computer to talk > to the robot - if you have scsi drives these should be separated out too > for this test. > SCSI card is brand new Adaptec 2021S. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
