[daip] question on error message

[Eric Greisen]

Patrick Palmer writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I am trying to backup a lot of stuff to exabyte tape.
 > 
 > I got the error after writing one file successfully, on the second (tiny) file:
 > 
 > oskar.> FITTP1: Task FITTP  (release of 31DEC06) begins
 > oskar.> FITTP1: Writing to tape drive number   1
 > oskar.> FITTP1: Writing at current tape position
 > oskar.> FITTP1: Writing beginning-of-write EOFs
 > oskar.> FITTP1: ZTAPE: LUN128 IO ERROR AT   1 OP OF BEGW SYS ERR CODE 0005
 > oskar.> FITTP1: ZERROR: IN ZTAP2 ERRNO = 5 (I/O error)
 > oskar.> FITTP1: ERROR     3 BEGINNING WRITES WITH EOFS
 > oskar.> FITTP1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
 > 
 > Then when I rewound the tape and tried again with DOEOT=1
 > oskar.> FITTP1: Task FITTP  (release of 31DEC06) begins
 > oskar.> FITTP1: Writing to tape drive number   1
 > oskar.> FITTP1: Advancing tape to end-of-information
 > oskar.> FITTP1: ZTAPE: LUN128 BEG.TAPE AT   1 OP OF AEOI SYS ERR CODE 0000
 > oskar.> FITTP1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
 > 
 > What do these mean?
 > 
 > Pat Palmer
 > 

I honestly cannot tel you - it would appear that there is something
wrong with the tape - try PRTTP.  I wonder if the first attempt to
position for writing the 2nd file messed up the EOF of the first file,
or if there was a problem with that first file to begin with.

Eric