Restoring problem on tape!

hi all ,

a messages appeared to me when i was checking my /var/adm/messages
and the below code was in it

Oct  6 13:15:21 medprod scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] /pci@3,700000/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/st@w21000024ff305234,7 (st1):
Oct  6 13:15:21 medprod         Restoring tape position at fileno=320, blkno=3b9aca00....
Oct  6 14:15:23 medprod scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] /pci@3,700000/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/st@w21000024ff305234,7 (st1):
Oct  6 14:15:23 medprod         Restoring tape position at fileno=323, blkno=3b9aca00....
Oct  6 15:15:19 medprod scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] /pci@3,700000/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/st@w21000024ff305234,7 (st1):
Oct  6 15:15:19 medprod         Restoring tape position at fileno=32b, blkno=3b9aca00....
Oct  6 16:15:19 medprod scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] /pci@3,700000/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/st@w21000024ff305234,7 (st1):
Oct  6 16:15:19 medprod         Restoring tape position at fileno=335, blkno=3b9aca00....
Oct  6 17:15:19 medprod scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] /pci@3,700000/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/st@w21000024ff305234,7 (st1):
Oct  6 17:15:19 medprod         Restoring tape position at fileno=339, blkno=3b9aca00....
Oct  6 18:00:08 medprod scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] /pci@3,700000/SUNW,emlxs@0/fp@0,0/st@w21000024ff305234,7 (st1):
Oct  6 18:00:08 medprod         Restoring tape position at fileno=33e, blkno=3b9aca00....

please can anyone tell me what is this and have a reply soon !!!

regards

It seems that you have a read problem in your tape media .

but i have to ask you h@foorsa.biz is it all about a read problem only or might be something else with it ??

It seems that your Tape media has bad blocks.
Try out the following .
1- Read the tape with another tape drive.
2- Monitor /var/adm/messages and post here again
3- Some times cleaning the tape drive multiple times might resolve such problems

i think it might be from cleaning , but i will do what u asked if th eproblem appeared again , because my mate did told me also it might need cleaning , it have been a big while that we didn't do the cleaning for it , i will reply to me if a problem also appeared again tx a lot

regards

You are welcome