Preventive Maintenance Question

<Kirk Goins wrote>
Jerry, I recently had an error similar to yours, In my case a SLR60 drive
and 2 pairs of 4326 ( 35GB ) drives mirrored, The system had been running
without errors for months. I as hired to do an OS upgrade and I wanted a
full system save. This 520 was a web server so it was pretty static and the
client had not been doing backups. I had some tape interface errors just
rying to init the tape, but did get a clean backup.
. I did notice after the
backup both mirrored pairs had a failed unit. Since the internal tape drive
and the disks share the same controller ( and SCSI Bus ), We had IBM
repleace the tape drive. NO more errors. Rebuilt the mirrored drives did the
OS upgrade via Images catalog and no errors. I can only assume the tape
drive was the problem.

You may be seeing the same type of problem, since the errors are when the
tape is in use.
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Kirk,

Thanks. Oddly, when I first made the call, the CE said something about bringing out a tape drive. Later changed his mind and just brought a couple of disk drives.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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