Hard Write Errors On New Tape
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 8 comments
We have about 20 tapes that have Hard Write Errors and it seems everytime a backup job tries to write to these tapes it logs a CRC error and stops the job. SO, we purchased 20 brand new tapes to replace the ones with Hard Write Errors, and to my surprise the first new tape it wrote to was issued two Hard Write Errors. The job logged a CRC error and stopped incomplete.
The tape drive is a Certance (company bought by Quantum) 8 bay autoloader using Quantum Ultrium tapes (200GB native /400GB compressed). The drive was cleaned a week ago.
Help before I go postal!
Message Edited by JasAld on 05-21-200710:18 AM
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Don't forget to check your event log for events 7-15. I believe these usually indicate hardware failure.
The device, \Device\Tape0, has a bad block.
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Tape0.
The device, \Device\Tape0, is not ready for access yet.
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server jammed up. Had to reboot it.
Message Edited by JasAld on 05-23-200701:27 PM
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