Howdy,

Case of deja fail for me.  Went 'round and 'round with this
one a couple of years ago.  Replaced drives, replaced tapes,
cleaned drive prior to each use, ad nauseum.  Never did get
the problem resolved.  I have on several occasions restored
the file/files giving the problem with no problem and no
corruption.  Go figure.

Jim Trudeau

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Hill [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 7:56 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      DDS-2
>
> Is anyone having problems writing large files to DDS-2 tape drives?
> We get this error 2-3 times a week while storing our databases,
> "Store encountered media write error on LDEV 8 (S/R 1454)
> Specifically, Store recieved error -40 from the I/O system (S/R
> 1557)."
>
> Our hardware vendor keeps saying it is the drive that has gone bad.
> We have swapped out the drives in this spot at least 4-5 times in a
> 7 month period.  I don't believe it is the drive.
>
> HP says it is a media problem.  We use new tapes and have the
> same problem.  Also, we do not get this error on the other two
> drives when doing our backups.  I don't believe it's a media problem.
>
> We do have two DDS-2's and 3-4 other disk drives on the same
> channel.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> Doug.