Backup Error: The device reported an error on a request to write data to media. Error reported: bad data.

[Ismaiel]

Hi,

I am working with Windows 2003 Standard Edition, and I have scheduled
a job at midnight but it didn't work correctly because after 1 minute
stopped with this error: "The device reported an error on a request to
write data to media. Error reported: bad data."

I searched in the internet, but I found a hotfix related with this
issue which is in this link http://support.microsoft.com/?id=817688
but it didn't do any thing for me in this error, but I applied this
fix when I was getting this problem with another reason which is
"Hardware Failure", but now I am getting Bad Data error! I am using
Seagate DAT 9SP40-000 SCSI Sequential Device as tape drive.

We have several servers which has this tape drive, and none of them
cause any problem except one drive which working on a server that run
with SQL and MS CRM.

Can you please assist me?

Many thanks,
Ismaiel

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

"Ismaiel" <imuhaithief@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1ca87f48.0410250337.243a172a@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am working with Windows 2003 Standard Edition, and I have scheduled
> a job at midnight but it didn't work correctly because after 1 minute
> stopped with this error: "The device reported an error on a request to
> write data to media. Error reported: bad data."
>
> I searched in the internet, but I found a hotfix related with this
> issue which is in this link http://support.microsoft.com/?id=817688
> but it didn't do any thing for me in this error, but I applied this
> fix when I was getting this problem with another reason which is
> "Hardware Failure", but now I am getting Bad Data error! I am using
> Seagate DAT 9SP40-000 SCSI Sequential Device as tape drive.
>
> We have several servers which has this tape drive, and none of them
> cause any problem except one drive which working on a server that run
> with SQL and MS CRM.
>
> Can you please assist me?
>
> Many thanks,
> Ismaiel

Could it be a bad tape?

[Ismaiel]

"Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message news:<ejUoKgouEHA.960@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> "Ismaiel" <imuhaithief@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1ca87f48.0410250337.243a172a@posting.google.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working with Windows 2003 Standard Edition, and I have scheduled
> > a job at midnight but it didn't work correctly because after 1 minute
> > stopped with this error: "The device reported an error on a request to
> > write data to media. Error reported: bad data."
> >
> > I searched in the internet, but I found a hotfix related with this
> > issue which is in this link http://support.microsoft.com/?id=817688
> > but it didn't do any thing for me in this error, but I applied this
> > fix when I was getting this problem with another reason which is
> > "Hardware Failure", but now I am getting Bad Data error! I am using
> > Seagate DAT 9SP40-000 SCSI Sequential Device as tape drive.
> >
> > We have several servers which has this tape drive, and none of them
> > cause any problem except one drive which working on a server that run
> > with SQL and MS CRM.
> >
> > Can you please assist me?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Ismaiel
>
> Could it be a bad tape?



I tried with new three tapes; but there is nothing happened, same problem.

[Ismaiel]

Guys, Can any one help me?


Thanks,
Ismaiel

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

"Ismaiel" <imuhaithief@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
news:<ejUoKgouEHA.960@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> > "Ismaiel" <imuhaithief@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1ca87f48.0410250337.243a172a@posting.google.com...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am working with Windows 2003 Standard Edition, and I have scheduled
> > > a job at midnight but it didn't work correctly because after 1 minute
> > > stopped with this error: "The device reported an error on a request to
> > > write data to media. Error reported: bad data."
> > >
> > > I searched in the internet, but I found a hotfix related with this
> > > issue which is in this link http://support.microsoft.com/?id=817688
> > > but it didn't do any thing for me in this error, but I applied this
> > > fix when I was getting this problem with another reason which is
> > > "Hardware Failure", but now I am getting Bad Data error! I am using
> > > Seagate DAT 9SP40-000 SCSI Sequential Device as tape drive.
> > >
> > > We have several servers which has this tape drive, and none of them
> > > cause any problem except one drive which working on a server that run
> > > with SQL and MS CRM.
> > >
> > > Can you please assist me?
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Ismaiel
> >
> > Could it be a bad tape?
>
>
>
> I tried with new three tapes; but there is nothing happened, same problem.

Time to start changing parameters, but only one at a time:

- Try different tapes, or different brands of tapes.
- Use one of the tape drives that is known to be good.
- Back up to some hard disk rather than to tape.
- Temporarily replace the system disk with a spare disk. Load
a vanilla version of Win2000, then rerun the problem job.

After you have tried each of these four tests, you will
have a pretty good idea what's causing your problem.

[Ismaiel]

> >
> >
> >
> > I tried with new three tapes; but there is nothing happened, same problem.
>
> Time to start changing parameters, but only one at a time:
>
> - Try different tapes, or different brands of tapes.
> - Use one of the tape drives that is known to be good.
> - Back up to some hard disk rather than to tape.
> - Temporarily replace the system disk with a spare disk. Load
> a vanilla version of Win2000, then rerun the problem job.
>
> After you have tried each of these four tests, you will
> have a pretty good idea what's causing your problem.


Thanks for your efforts

I tried with several tapes with different brands, and the server which
has the tape drive is very critical thats why I couldn't try to
replace tape drive which causing restart the machine or do a test. We
changed the tape drive permentaly, and seems to be everything is ok, I
will let you know if there is any issue comes.


Rgrds,
Ismaiel