I would be very suspicious of the tape you were running
through at that time.  Was it a brand new tape or one
that had been used before?  If you really wanted
to test it, I would clean the tape drive and then
run that same tape through again and see if the clean
light comes back on.  If it does, I would toss that tape.

HTH,

Barry


On 30 Nov 00, at 14:24, Sean Rich wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My backup aborted today because of the following error, indicating a
> problem with the DDS tape drive:
>
>  STORE ENCOUNTERED MEDIA WRITE ERROR ON LDEV 7  (S/R 1454)
>  SPECIFICALLY, STORE RECEIVED ERROR -44 FROM THE IO
>   SYSTEM (S/R 1557)
>
> The 'clean' light was flashing even though I had just run the cleaning tape
> through on Monday. When I ran it through again today the light went off. Is
> this anything to worry about?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sean
>
> Sean Rich
> ERB Industries, Inc.
> http://www.e-ERB.com
> (770) 926-7944 x304
>


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