From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 01:52:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFF516A4CF for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 01:52:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.physik.uni-mainz.de (mail.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C6143D41 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 01:52:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de) Received: from mail.physik.uni-mainz.de (mail.physik.uni-mainz.de [134.93.180.161])i259qpjo068300 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:52:51 GMT (envelope-from ohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 10:52:46 +0100 (CET) From: "Hartmann, O." To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040305104112.J68220@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: failed to write terminating filemark(s) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:52:53 -0000 Dear Sirs. This is an error message I get on our backup system when tapes get full and are about to be changed: (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): WRITE FILEMARKS. CDB: 10 0 0 0 1 0 (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:3b,0 (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): Sequential positioning error (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): Retries Exhausted (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): failed to write terminating filemark(s) (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. (sa0:sym0:0:5:0): tape is now frozen- use an OFFLINE, REWIND or MTEOM command to clear this state. I get this error while using 'afbackup' in the most recent release for doing backups. This error occurs on all tape changes when one tape gets full and should be 'closed'. What hapens here? I have no idea. Is this a FreebSD related error or is it hardware? Thanks, Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ Systemadministration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 (Buero) FAX: +496131/3923532