Hi, I am getting an intermittent error on my LTO 3 drive. It is a HP StorageWorks 920 internal SCSI drive. Sometimes backups work and sometimes tar will fail with this error: tar: /dev/st3: Cannot write: Input/output error tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now I have tried 3 old tapes and one brand new tape. It has happened on all of them. I have also run two different cleaning cartridges through the drive. Also it always fails in a different place. Sometimes it runs for 5 minutes when the error comes up, other times for an hour or so. sometimes not at all and the backup works. If I look on the monitor connected to the server I see this error: 10:0:3:0 Error on write file mark Does anyone know what this means exactly or what I should do? I read online that I should try cleaning the tape heads with isopropyl alcohol. Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org