I got one response and that was to look at the /var/adm/messages and the
/var/log/syslog files.  These files give some extra info.  I'm not sure
if it will help us yet though I haven't dug deep enough.
Thanks to
Karl Vogel
vogelke@c17.wpafb.af.mil
for the reply.
Gary White
Senior Systems Engineer USAF
USAFE CSS/SCOE
Ramstein AB, GE
>----------
>From: 	White Gary SrA USAFE CSS/SCOE
>Sent: 	Monday, March 24, 1997 12:59 PM
>To: 	'sun-managers'
>Subject: 	Dat tape errors
>
>We have had many problems with our DAT tape drives failing lately.  We have
>been unable to recreate the problem with any consistency.  It is my
>understanding when writing to a tape if it detects a bad spot it will skip
>over and keep writing.  Therefore I suspect the problem is elsewhere.
>
>Finally my question.  Does Solaris 2.3 keep a log somewhere of tape errors.
>Not the vague indescript ones that are echoed to the console but a
>descriptive error code or message that can tell me what exactly failed (i.e.
>bad tape, bad connection, scsi bus error etc.)
>
>Thanks in advance.
>I will actually summarize this one if I get an answer.
>Gary White
>Senior Systems Engineer USAF
>USAFE CSS/SCOE
>Ramstein AB, GE
>
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