SCSI Tape: I/O Error During Close

[Joe White]

Hi,
I've inherited a 48AL autoloader (C1533) that's attached to a C class running HPUX 11.0. I'm trying to d a simple fbackup and get the 'SCSI Tape I/O error During Close' message in syslog. The autoloader itself flashes the amber light and 'clean me' every time I try the job. I cleaned the original drive several times and somewhere on hp docs saw it might be a bad tape drive. The drive was replaced but I get the same errors. Anyone have any suggestions?

[harry d brown jr]

Joe,

You will probably need some scripts or commands to get the autoloader to correctly handle the tapes, especially with fbackup.

Do a search on

+fbackup +autoloader

Look for the use of "mc", and possibly some scripts people have posted.

live free or die
harry

[Joe White]

I'll do the search but after inserting a tape in the drive and executing a simple tar it doesn't work.

[Michael Lampi]

I would try replacing the tape cartridges with new ones. I would try some simple tape tests to see if the problem persists.

If the problem has not gone away I would replace the tape drive one more time. If that solves the problem then I would complain loudly that the first replacement was a bad drive.

Do you see any SCSI error messages on the system console?

[Wayne Yu_1]

It almost definitely the tape is bad. Some brand tapes are easy to become bad. Try using totally new tapes to see if error persist.

[Joe White]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I have the tape drive replaced again and it works fine now.