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10-01-2002

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8mm tape drive I/O error

hello,

I don't know what exactly the cause and the solution!!

suddenly I receive this error message when I want to use the 8mm tape drive

"I/O write error"

I disconnect the tape drive and I hook it in another WS and I receive this error :-
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ct 1 01:46:20 omjs24 scsi: WARNING: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3,1/st@4,0 (st11):
tar: write error: I/O error
omjs24# Oct 1 01:46:20 omjs24 Error for Command: write Error
Level: Fatal
Oct 1 01:46:20 omjs24 scsi: Requested Block: 308 Error
Block: 308
Oct 1 01:46:20 omjs24 scsi: Vendor: EXABYTE Seria
l Number:
Oct 1 01:46:20 omjs24 scsi: Sense Key: Media Error
Oct 1 01:46:20 omjs24 scsi: ASC: 0x3 (<vendor unique code 0x3>), ASCQ: 0x2,
FRU: 0x0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I tried this with tar /dev/rmt/1n * <-- with no option

what could be the problem!!!!!!!!

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tapset::scsi

tapset::scsi(3stap)													       tapset::scsi(3stap)

NAME

       tapset::scsi - systemtap scsi tapset

DESCRIPTION

	This family of probe points is used to probe SCSI activities.

       scsi.ioentry
	      Prepares a SCSI mid-layer request

	       See probe::scsi.ioentry(3stap)
	       for details.

       scsi.iodispatching
	      SCSI mid-layer dispatched low-level SCSI command

	       See probe::scsi.iodispatching(3stap)
	       for details.

       scsi.iodone
	      SCSI command completed by low level driver and enqueued into the done queue.

	       See probe::scsi.iodone(3stap)
	       for details.

       scsi.iocompleted
	      SCSI mid-layer running the completion processing for block device I/O requests

	       See probe::scsi.iocompleted(3stap)
	       for details.

       scsi.ioexecute
	      Create mid-layer SCSI request and wait for the result

	       See probe::scsi.ioexecute(3stap)
	       for details.

       scsi.set_state
	      Order SCSI device state change

	       See probe::scsi.set_state(3stap)
	       for details.

SEE ALSO

	  probe::scsi.ioentry(3stap),	   probe::scsi.iodispatching(3stap),	  probe::scsi.iodone(3stap),	 probe::scsi.iocompleted(3stap),
       probe::scsi.ioexecute(3stap),  probe::scsi.set_state(3stap),  stap(1), stapprobes(3stap)

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