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May 16th, 2004 20:00

PV110T VS80 - I/O device error

Perhaps someone can help.  We have a PV110T VS80 Tape drive on a Power Edge 4400 file server - NT OS.  We are using Veritas 7.3 software.  The scheduled backup stops after 1-2G of backup with an I/O error.  It isn't consistent on where or when is fails.  At best, the tape drive is backing up at a rate of 20MB/min but usually is running around 15MB/min.  We have reinstalled the scsi Adaptec 39160 driver and the tape drive driver with no change.

A test backup of 3G worked fine when we ran it instead of scheduling.  We're trying a full backup now without the schedule and it is running very slow - over an hour per Gig of files.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

G&M IT Dept.

SachseIT

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September 1st, 2004 15:00

I am having a similar problem on my PowerEdge 2600 using an HP Dat72 tape drive and Veritas BE 9.1 SP1.  Help.

Cubos

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December 13th, 2004 09:00

Hi, I've been having the same problem.

My previous DLT1/VS80 broke last week and I managed to get a replacement. I ran 3-4 test backups on the new drive and everything seemed to work fine...until I ran the Friday backup. I came in this morning and the tape had ejected (like it usually does) - so I though it must have ran without errors. After checking the log and noticing that no 'job completion' was there I knew something was wrong!

The backup ran for just over an hour (706 mb) and then fell over with: I/O device error. I'm presently running another backup and it's been going for 2 hours and still no failer. I don't understand - do I need to upgrade the driver / firmware?

Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks,

Ben

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