On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 04:25:05PM +0200, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:54:01AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > During last night's backups, I got tons of errors in /var/log/messages,
> > enough to run /var out of space.  The following is a brief sample; there
> > are about 400 messages (5 lines each) per second.
> > 
> > Has anyone seen this?  It seems like a combination of a hardware error
> > and amanda being overly aggressive.
> > 
> > 
> > Jul 28 09:00:01 fnord newsyslog[8358]: log file turned over
> > Jul 28 09:00:01 fnord syslogd: restart
> > Jul 28 09:00:01 fnord /netbsd: st0(ahc2:0:5:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x08 00 00 80 00 00
> > Jul 28 09:00:01 fnord /netbsd: SENSE KEY:  Blank Check
> > Jul 28 09:00:01 fnord /netbsd: INFO FIELD:  32768
> > Jul 28 09:00:01 fnord /netbsd: ASC/ASCQ:  End-Of-Data Detected
> 
> Sense "Blank Check" means "End of data encountered on a read operation".
> Amanda tries to read (CDB 08) 32768 bytes from either the end of a tape file
> or a blank tape.

Hm. Maybe unlabeled tape in the drive, with no data, or data with
a smaller block size than Amanda uses.

	-is