L8: Backup hang half way during backup process

Dear all,
We tried to backup 180GB of data to a Sun L8 tape drive via StorEdge Backup 7.1 software.
Half way during the backup process, the backup hanged and i saw the following error message:
[ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@8,600000/pci@1/scsi@4/st@5,0 (st19):
backup      Error for Command: read Error Level: Fatal
backup scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]      Requested Block: 1413 Error Block: 1413
backup scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]      Vendor: HP Serial Number:
backup scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]      Sense Key: Media Error
backup scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice]      ASC: 0x11 (unrecovered read error), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x0
backup root: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Sun StorEdge(TM) Enterprise Backup media: (warning) /dev/rmt/0cbn moving: fsr 3770 (read): drive status is Drive reports no error - but state is unknown
Please let me know, why the backup hanged and what is the error message about?
Thanks in advance.
Edited by: Ali_Sampras on Mar 12, 2009 7:48 PM

c.d.stone wrote:
The restore process is just spinning it's wheels and the log says "erasing" drive name.
Is the drive name your internal?
UPDATE: When I stopped the restore function I checked the error log again and it said "could not un-mount disk for erasure" Not sure what that means. Anyone know how to fix that?
I'm pretty sure something is wrong with the hard drive installed on the iMac at this point. I tried to do a clean install of 10.5.0 from the Leopard retail DVD and that stalled early in the process as well.
Yes, it sure sounds like it. It now sounds like both the TM restore and Erase and Install are unable to erase your internal HD. It's not even getting to your TM backups, or installing OSX.
Let's double-check and try again. Boot from the Install disc again, and completely reformat the internal HD. Be sure to use the GUID Partition Map scheme if it's an Intel Mac, or the +Apple Partition Map+ scheme if it's a PPC. And use the +Mac OS Extended (Journaled)+ format.
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