[ale] Failing device?

[Robert L. Harris]

I've started getting alot of these:

sym53c875-3-<5,*>: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s (100.0 ns, offset 15)
sym53c875-3-<5,*>: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s (100.0 ns, offset 15)
sym53c875-3-<4,*>: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s (100.0 ns, offset 15)
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 9572404, scsi3, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00
sym53c8xx_abort: pid=9572404 serial_number=9572395 serial_number_at_timeout=9572395
sym53c875-3-<5,*>: FAST-10 WIDE SCSI 20.0 MB/s (100.0 ns, offset 15)

sym53c875-3-<[345],*> are the scsi id's assigned to my tape drives.  3
on one chain, terminated with a terminator.  In the past I've swapped
out cables, trying changing one cable for another, etc, no difference.
The box will behave for a few days and then this.  The tape drives are
in an Overland DLT library setup.

scsi3, id3 is a tape drive that currently shows it is trying to verify a
label in legato.  The process using this device is now hung, can't kill
it (remember "how to kill an unkillable" ?) and it's holding up my
backups.  

Need expert opinions, is this a dying tape drive or a bad tape somehow
messing up my system?

Robert




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FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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