[daip] Tapes

[Jim Ulvestad]

Hi all,

I've tried writing three different exabyte tapes to
two different drives on two different remote
machines (alfirk and megrez, after cleaning the drives and 
killing and restarting the TPMONs), and I always
get the same result:

coyote> MSGWRT ERROR      2 AT
OPEN                                             
coyote> TPMON1: Begins on 2002.02.20 15:07:27
coyote> MSGWRT ERROR      2 AT
OPEN                                             
coyote> TPMON2: Begins on 2002.02.20 15:07:27
coyote> FITTP1: Task FITTP  (release of 31DEC02) begins
coyote> FITTP1: Writing to tape drive number   5
coyote> FITTP1: Writing at current tape position
coyote> FITTP1: Writing beginning-of-write EOFs
coyote> FITTP1: ZTAPR: REMOTE TAPE SYSTEM RETURNS ERROR CODE      3
coyote> FITTP1: ZTAPR: ERROR WAS ON OP ='BEGW' COUNT=  1 LUN=35
coyote> FITTP1: REMOTE ZTAPE RETURNS ERROR     3
coyote> FITTP1: This usually means PARITY ERROR
coyote> FITTP1: ERROR     3 BEGINNING WRITES WITH EOFS
coyote> FITTP1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
coyote> FITTP1: coyote       31DEC02 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       0

My suspicion is that this parity error is bogus, and that
this is really related to the fact that my black box
got a red-hat upgrade on Monday.  Any thoughts?

jim