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From: beauchem@terre.DMI.USherb.CA (Denis Beauchemin)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Backup problems on 6386 systems
Summary: I/O errors almost every time!
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.195548.17967@DMI.USherb.CA>
Date: 13 Nov 90 19:55:48 GMT
Sender: Denis Beauchemin
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec
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Hi everybody,

We are plaged by a "I/O Error on write(), errno 5, I/O Error" message almost
every time we use our 120 MB tape drives (we have 3 on different 6386 systems).
Could someone tell me what is the cause of these errors?

I know it's related to hardware, but changing the tape drive or the media
doesn't make it go away.  We can't do reliable backups because of that!  Help!
(and AT&T isn't very helpful either)

Please answer by email since I cannot keep up with this list...

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