Have HP replace the drive. DDS drives are notorious for failing. I've never
had a DDS drive last through 6 years of daily use, so consider yourself
lucky.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Cary
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:17 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Store errors
>
>
>  Recently we have been encountering the following error almost every
> night on our backup jobs:
>
> STORE ENCOUNTERED MEDIA WRITE ERROR ON LDEV 7  (S/R 1454)
>  SPECIFICALLY, STORE RECEIVED ERROR -44 FROM THE IO
>   SYSTEM (S/R 1557)
>  STORE/RESTORE ENCOUNTERED EXCESSIVE REWIND RETRIES ON LDEV 7.
>  EXAMINE CABLE CONNECTIONS OR BUS ADDRESS  (S/R 2132)
>  STORE/RESTORE ENCOUNTERED UNEXPECTED ERROR 0 FROM SUBSYS UNKNOWN
>   AT LINE 123 OF PROCEDURE "TS_TAPE_DEVICE_CONTROL" (S/R 2281)
>  WARNING: STORE EXPERIENCED ERROR WHILE MARKING
>  MEDIA BAD ON LDEV 7 (S/R 1466)
>  SPECIFICALLY, STORE RECEIVED ERROR -100 FROM SUBSYS
> TS_TAPE_DEVICE_CONTROL
>   (S/R 1556)
>
> We're not sure if this is our tape drive going bad, our tapes getting
> too old or what.  The System is a 979/400 running MPE/ix 5.5 and the
> drive is an HP DDS3 DAT24i drive.  The drive is about 6 years old.  It
> does get cleaned regularly.  Our tapes in rotation are fairly old,
> too.  However, we are receiving this error when we use brand new
> tapes, too.  The new tapes, however, are FUji media, not HP like our
> old ones.  I don't know if the drive can tell the difference.  I'm not
> sure if this is some kind of bus problem but it could be because we
> recently had a failure which required having HP out here to replace
> the system backplane ( a pretty major component. ) We have not powered
> down the system and IPL'd the box since this started happening.  I
> know that sometime clears SCSI bus problems.  Any sage advice from you
> all would be greatly appreciated.
>

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