Hi, Maybe you can use the a tools such as the sg3_utils or sdparm to read the tape alerts of your tape drive.
These tape alert flags can signal hardware malfunction or media problems. HTH, Hugo Caçote > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:storage- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lyle Merdan > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [storage-discuss] Media error > > Gabriele, > The nature of a SCSI check condition is that it is an error > detected or reported by the SCSI target. > > Two items support James' conclusion that the tape drive or media > are problems. > > The first is that the drive reports a Media Error sense key. In > SCSI terms, media is the tape or disk platter. > > But because the ASC/ASCQ are for a sequential positioning error. > It leads one to believe that the drive tape handling mechanism is > misbehaving. > > May 30 12:24:32 iserver scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: > Media Error > May 30 12:24:32 iserver scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] ASC: 0x3b > (sequential positioning error), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x0 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
