Inconsistant data error?

[wingnut144]

I am using a HP 1/8 autoloader, and been having some issues lately.  

There are no partion sets set up for the autoloader, as the jobs we have are very large and will require all 8 tapes.  But when I ran the job yesterday, I got the following error:

e00084ca - The data being read from the media is inconsistent. 

That's not a helpful error at all.....anyone know what it refers to?  And how I can resolve it??  This is running on BE 2010 R3

[Ken_Putnam]

See

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH35908

The error "The data being read from the media is inconsistent" (e00084ca HEX or a00084ca HEX) occurs when running a backup.

[DoubleEM]

Hi wingnut144,

Is it a HP Proliant server that your BE 2010 R3 is sitted on?

We have an odd finding on this error only happen when your hardware is BE 2010 R3...

[pkh]

Go to the Media tab, right-click on your tapes and check the read/write errors.  If there are a lot of them, especially the hard errors, then you should replace the tape(s).

If all your tapes have a lot of errors, then it could be an indication that the tape drive is bad.  Run the HP LT&T utility to test your tape drive.  Make sure that you stop all the BE services beforehand and select the write test.

[CraigV]

...you can run a cleaning tape too just in case, but from my experience with those devices (and they are horrible), it sounds like a broken, or failing drive.

[wingnut144]

Yes, it is a HP DL320 server........what have you found??