Re: Tape Drive Problems

2003-07-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, > > I have a Dell PowerEdge server with a RAID 5 and a SCSI tape drive. For the > past two years, the tape drive has worked fine. All of the sudden I get: > > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jun 16 01:00:00 2003 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev

Re: Tape Drive Problems

2003-07-08 Thread Peter Elsner
Could be a bad drive, bad tape, bad cable... Try a new tape and cleaning the drive with a tape cleaning cartridge. I assume you have rebooted and tried again (just to make sure it wasn't a hangup)? Power down the server, and open up the case, look for loose data cables, or loose SCSI card. (i