Dotsys Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Hi, heres my setup, brand new stuff: XServe Quad 2.8 GHz, Leopard Server 10.5.5, 4 GB RAM ATTO UL4D PCI-X SCSI card (Driver 4.3.0) HP Ultrium 448 SCSI tape device, using new SCSI 1 feet cable Retrospect 6.1.138, Driver Update 6.1.15.101 installed So im getting the "203 error - Hardware Failure" randomly. I never finished a backup completely. Sometimes it backups 3 Gb, other times 30 Gb before crashing. here a log sample from Retro: - 10/24/2008 3:35:29 PM: Copying img on Boot RAID… Trouble writing: “1-SEMAINE 1 - JEUDI†(1795162112), error 203 (hardware failure). Additional error information for device "HP Ultrium Gen 2 DC" [0:3], Sense > f0 00 04 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 30 20 (HP |Ultrium 2-SCSI |S63D) I tried to backup data from FireWire drives, local SATA drive, NAS, but its always showing up. Could this be a terminator issue? The LTO2 is the only device on the ATTO. anyone has ideas? thanks Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 203 error is a hardware error reported by the tape drive. It could be caused by a bad tape, dirty tape heads, bad scsi cable, bad terminator, problem with the scsi card or even a failing tape drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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