I am having a problem on one of my machines and I was wondering if anyone has encountered anything similar.
I have an F740 running 5.3.4R2, with a directly attached AIT-2 tape library. When I first tested the tape drive it performed wonderfully. Once I was happy with the 740 and with the tape drive, I moved the bulk of the data from a pair of old F230's over to the F740. The problem I then encountered is that when I am dumping to the tape it writes 50 gig and then aborts. I am using the "36C" AIT-2 tapes and I am accessing the tape drive using device "nrst0a", so I should be able to write approximately 72 gig of data to the tape. I have tried several different tapes and get the same results. I also tried setting the tape drive into DLT7000 emulation and I still get the same results.
The qeustion now is: is there something wrong with the tape drive or is this a problem with 5.3.4R2? Should I try upgrading to 5.3.4R3? I have another F740 with a DLT7000 library on it and it seems to work just fine. Did I blunder badly by switching to AIT-2?
Please help!!!!!