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Article #8533Re: Exabyte Tape Errors
From: Tim Wood
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 19:40
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 19:40
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In article <3421@brchh104.bnr.ca> adw@isg.cs.reading.ac.uk (Anthony Worrall) writes:
>We have beening doing dumps onto an Exabyte connected to a 4/380 under
>SUNOS 4.1.1 rev B using Sony QG-112M tapes. Recently we have started to
>get write errors with the error message
>
> st1: write failed
> st1 error: sense key(0x5): illegal request
Could it be that you are at the exact end-of-volume when this occurs?
This happened to me with a QIC-24; the sense key error seemed to be when
writing a block that was at or wrapped around the end-of-tape reversal
point (since those tapes are serpentine.) The tape and drive have
otherwise worked fine. HTH; pls let me know what you find out,
Thanks,
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: mtxinu!sybase!ohday!tim@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Tim Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Exabyte Tape Errors Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <3798@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 12 Jun 91 19:40:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: 6 Jun 91 18:10:23 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 106, message 9 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu