Veritas 7.0 and mdac

[MrRetro]

Hi there
I am getting very sporadic results with my backup jobs on my NT 4.0 terminal servers, lotsa crc errors, and requests to clean the drive every week. I am curious if upgrading my mdac drivers would help this.
Currently I have version 2.1 installed on all servers, the latest version is 2.7. Anyone have any experience with this ? or am I barking up the wrong tree ?

Thanks in advance

 

[amak75]

Hi there,

From experience looks as though you are barking up the wrong tree.

Usually CRC errors and warnings to clean the drive are a sign that you have a hardware issue.

Do you have any event is's 9, 11 or 15 showing in the system log?? If so this is most likely a hardware issue!

Look at replcing SCSI, Tape drive, Cabling, also have you tried updating to the latest Veritas driver??

Let me know how it goes.

Regards,

 

[MrRetro]

Hi there,

Thanks for the reply, the only error I get in event viewer is event 7 the tape has a bad block. This is a remote site that I cant physically get to.
When this happens I get the tape sent back to me and pop it into our machine here and it works fine (sometimes I need to erase it first). The hardware, drivers, veritas versions, OS's are all the same.

I dunno SCSI rates maybe ?

Basicly 4 out of 5 dc's work fine just this one is being stubborn. I suspected hardware and had a tech go out and check everything, even replaced the drive as it was still on warranty, still no joy.