All of you recommend to clean up the tape drive. I have cleaned up this
drive every 10 hours of use and this problem has not gone away. Ok, the
last thing I would do is replace with the new tape drive.
Thanks all for your answers. It was a good number of replies.
-Anthony
Anthony Tran wrote:
> Hi gurus,
>
> I have an 8mm tape drive that connect with a SS10 running Solaris 2.5.
>
> It's been a week now that everynight we ran backup there are some
> warning messages about the soft error rate was high. I thought the
> tape
> was bad but when I try with the new tape the message was displayed
> again. I included the little portion of the logged message here:
>
> Oct 5 13:45:40 schumann unix: too high
> Oct 5 13:45:40 schumann unix: Please, replace tape cartridge
> Oct 5 13:49:44 schumann unix: WARNING:
> /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/st@5,0
> (st5):
> Oct 5 13:49:44 schumann unix: Soft error rate (9%) during writing
> was
> Oct 5 13:49:44 schumann unix: too high
> Oct 5 13:49:44 schumann unix: Please, replace tape cartridge
> Oct 6 17:10:12 schumann unix: WARNING:
> /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/st@5,0
> (st5):
> Oct 6 17:10:12 schumann unix: Soft error rate (9%) during writing
> was
> Oct 6 17:10:12 schumann unix: too high
> Oct 6 17:10:13 schumann unix: Please, replace tape cartridge
> Oct 7 08:57:52 schumann unix: WARNING:
> /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/st@5,0
> (st5):
> Oct 7 08:57:52 schumann unix: Soft error rate (8%) during writing
> was
> Oct 7 08:57:52 schumann unix: too high
> Oct 7 08:57:52 schumann unix: Please, replace tape cartridge
>
> Any one know how to fix this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance. Will summarize.
>
> -Anthony
>
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> Anthony Tran <anthony.tran@trw.com>
> UNAS - Data Technologies Division - TRW Inc.
> Phone (310) 764-6561
> Fax (310) 764-3399
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