On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:49:08PM -0700, Ambrose_Earle@shamrockfoods.com wrote:
Does anyone else experience frequent backup failures?
We have an F840 cluster and we use NetVault to perform ndmpd backups to an overland tape library. Many times we receive messages like
Mon Nov 25 02:43:55 MST [filer: ispfc_main:error]: Tape (switch:0.1L3) hard media error: Sense_Key (3) ASC (c) ASCQ (0)
We've been fighting this problem on both F840 filers with Quantum ATL L200 libraries attached for about a year now. We've replaced the libraries, SCSI cables and terminators, and tapes. The problem would go away, and then re-appear again. To the date, the jury is still out on what is the culprit. It still could be the from with ONTAP or filer hardware. Do you have a case open with NetApp on this?
Igor