rob@colltech.com (Rob Worman) writes: [...]
-recall that our current testing has removed any Netbackup or robotics from the picture. It's just a Netapp, a SCSI card, and a DLT drive. :)
Can't NetApp give you information to identify the error involved rather more specifically than the "Tape write failed" that you reported?
If I had to make a stab at this without such assistance, I would combine use of the "mt -f ... status" command on the filer with experiments reading and writing the tape through the rmt(8) interface, using rsh manually. That would assume some familiarity with the rmt protocol.
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