Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > Mike Reinehr wrote: > >> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 02:42 am, Taymour A. El Erian wrote: >> >>> HI, >>> >>> I had a tape which bacula failed to write on so I did mt erase and >>> relabeled it with label command and started to reuse it, what happened >>> is that I got this error from bacula after it wrote several jobs on the >>> tape >>> >>> Error: Unable to position to end of data on device "/dev/tape". >>> ERR=dev.c:494 ioctl MTEOM error on /dev/tape. ERR=Input/output error. >>> >>> what does this mean ? >> >> >> >> This is just a guess, but Magnetic Tape End Of Media error. In >> other words, you have run off the end of the tape, without Bacula >> having received an end of media signal. > > > This happens regularly with worn-out DAT media here. > Replace the tape. > This is a new LTO2 tape, used once every 3 weeks and for 5 months only, now I just relabled it and it is working
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