Gary, I've never tried to stop a tape process by doing a Crtl-C but it may not
be the best way to do it without seeing errors. I would guess that you killed
the tar process but the tape drive may have been still reading and had a buffer
overflow???
The flashing amber and green lights (at the same time) indicate an unexceptable
number of tape read errors. I believe the lights are a function of the tape
drive not the software.
Gerry
On 30-Nov-99 gnielson wrote:
> I am trying to figure out what might be happening with my tapes and tape
> drive. The symptoms are such that I can not tell if it is the tapes or the
> drive itself.
>
> Every week I tar up several directories to tape, an HP SureStore Tape
> 2000. Routinely, I restore a file or two to make sure the backups worked.
> I also on occasion do a tar tvfp /dev/rst0 to read the contents of the
> tape.
>
> Last week I did the tar tvfp to list the contents of one tape and then
> after a while decided to do a control-c (something I also do routinely)
> and stop that process. Instead of stopping, the tape drive started making
> these low pitched whirring sounds and then the amber light went on
> flashing as well as the green light. The drive was only able to list part
> of the contents before producing error.
>
> I tried another tape and the same thing happened. The error given was:
>
> st0:Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sense key Medium Error
> Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error
>
> I then put in a fresh unused tape and was able to backup, restore and list
> with no problem. Since then, having shut off and on the computer and
> drive, I have been able to do two backups, restore a file and list
> contents without incident.
>
> I took the two tapes in question and loaded them onto another HP SureStore
> Tape 5000. Running the tar tvfp /dev/rst0 command, both tapes were able to
> red the contents. However, one of the two tapes did prompt the SureStore
> unit to start flashing the amber light as well as the green light.
>
> Has anyone encountered a similar situation or seen that error mentioned
> above and be able to help me sort out what the problem might be? Both the
> tapes in question have been used 3-4 times each. The unit in question is 3
> and a half years old.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Gary
> Charlotte NC
>
>
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Date: 29-Nov-99
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