EXTREMELY unlikely that it is cable related - those errors would show up in dmesg as SCSI/SAS/FC/whatever errors, not as tape drive hardware errors. All of those transports have their own error detection/correction; the drive will never get a corrupted signal from the HBA or vice versa.
Very much sounds like you've got a problem with your drive itself to me. Probably time for a service call... Bryn On 2014-12-23 05:31 AM, Clark, Patricia A. wrote: > Dirt is not the issue unless you are operating in a dirty environment. > There is something wrong with either the tape drive itself or the > connection to the drive. The connection could be the cable or the HBA on > the computer. There are likely error messages in your logs that will help > with the diagnosis. Changing cables is the easiest/fastest first thing. > After that, look at the drive and any documentation about the drive and > run any available diagnostics. > > Patti Clark > Linux System Administrator > R&D Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory > > > On 12/20/14, 3:49 AM, "Danixu86" <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote: > >> Hi there, first of all i'm sorry for my english. >> >> My problem is with Tape Drive, recently i'm getting errors on a lot of >> tapes and the most of times in about 6GB of backup... These errors are: >> Dirty Drive, or Hardware Error and when i eject the tape then Dirty Drive. >> I've tried with 4 new tapes (2 Sony and 2 Qantum), and yesterday with >> used tape, and all give me error on about 5-6GB. Cleaner Tape is new too, >> and i've got errors with two different cleaner tapes... >> >> Someone knows what can be the problem?, Can i clean the Drive manually?, >> because maybe the problem is some dirt that tape cleaner can't >> eliminate... >> >> Tape Drive is a Quantum LTO-4 HH. >> >> ¡¡Greetings and thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
