hi

am connecting one tape drive in solaris9 server.it's run daily backup in automaticaly schudleing .But it's send a message daily.please give the help.here daily error and iostat -E command output. iostat it's indicate same error on Tape drive it's L25 tape.

Error messages,

Feb 5 22:05:43 olimms.nlcindia.com scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@1/fp@0,0/st@w2100001086112028,2 (st22):
Feb 5 22:05:43 olimms.nlcindia.com Error for Command: write file mark Error Level: Fatal
Feb 5 22:05:43 olimms.nlcindia.com scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Requested Block: 1 Error Block: 1
Feb 5 22:05:43 olimms.nlcindia.com scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor:HP Serial Number:
Feb 5 22:05:43 olimms.nlcindia.com scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: Media Error
Feb 5 22:05:43 olimms.nlcindia.com scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] ASC: 0x14 (recorded entity not found), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x0
Feb 5 22:05:44 olimms.nlcindia.com vmd[317]: [ID 240135 daemon.error] Cleaning tape A00004 has 0 cleanings left
Feb 5 22:05:44 olimms.nlcindia.com vmd[317]: [ID 528914 daemon.error] Cleaning tape A00005 has 0 cleanings left
Feb 5 22:05:44 olimms.nlcindia.com ltid[309]: [ID 560523 daemon.error] Automatic cleaning of TLD(0) drive index 0 failed because there is no cleaning tape or the cleaning tape is used up


and iostat -E

st21 Soft Errors: 8 Hard Errors: 9 Transport Errors: 2
Vendor: HP Product: Ultrium 2-SCSI Revision: F40Z Serial No:

st22 Soft Errors: 64 Hard Errors: 107 Transport Errors: 18
Vendor: HP Product: Ultrium 2-SCSI Revision: F45Z Serial No:

It seems to me that the error messages have spelled it out pretty clearly for you.

There has been an error trying to write to the tape. The tape system has attempted to do an automatic cleaning, but the cleaning tape has been used up, so it can't do it.

You need to replace the cleaning tapes. It could also be a bad data tape, so you should try alternative new tapes for writing. Try reading some tapes. But you should resolve all that manually. Use the front panel (or mtx) and mt to work with it. Once that is ironed out, the automatic backups should run alright. Worst case, you could have tape drive problems, but I wouldn't worry about that until you've addressed the other issues and possibilities. They are common and more likely.