Setup WAS
HP Proliant 570
Windows 2000 SP4 + updates
Adaptec 29160 card with latest firmware and drivers
External HP LTO1 drive with Veritas drivers
BE10 with all applicable patches
All worked fine
Now changed drive for a external HP Ultrium 448 drive with Veritas drivers.
Same backup scripts etc etc
Adaptec on SCSI 7 with default settings
LTO2 on SCSI 3
No other devices on this card
As per support doc 191158
Setting of Initiate wide negotiation and sync nogotiation unknown. Ditto with max sync transfer rate. Should this really be set to the lowest possible setting?
All drivers removed and reinstalled using latest Veritas tape driver download.
Drive has been replaced as has the external Adaptec SCSI cable
After about an hour, the backup will fail with a
Event Type:Error
Event Source:adpu160m
Event Category:None
Event ID:9
Date:28/07/2005
Time:20:57:24
User:N/A
Computer:ZDATA1
Description:
The device, \Device\Scsi\adpu160m1, did not respond within the timeout period.
Data:
0000: 00 00 10 00 01 00 6a 00 ......j.
0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 01 01 00 50 00 00 00 00 ...P....
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 ........
followed by a
Event Type:Error
Event Source:halfinchVRTS
Event Category:None
Event ID:15
Date:28/07/2005
Time:20:57:37
User:N/A
Computer:ZDATA1
Description:
The device, \Device\Tape0, is not ready for access yet.
Data:
0000: 0f 00 18 00 01 00 76 00 ......v.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0f 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 04 01 00 00 9d 00 00 c0 ......À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0038: 00 4a 00 00 01 04 00 00 .J.....
Sometimes, I get
Event Type:Error
Event Source:halfinchVRTS
Event Category:None
Event ID:7
Date:28/07/2005
Time:21:16:46
User:N/A
Computer:ZDATA1
Description:
The device, \Device\Tape0, has a bad block.
Data:
0000: 0f 00 18 00 01 00 76 00 ......v.
0008: 00 00 00 00 07 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 00 01 00 00 9c 00 00 c0 ......À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0038: 02 c4 00 00 00 14 03 00 .Ä......
.
Card showed no issues on the LTO1
Help, this is a REAL problem