15 May
2007
15 May
'07
6:27 p.m.
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 14:07, Jim Leonard wrote:
Anyway, I'm happy to see that, although seeming to
need a cleaning
tape every 4 loads or so, they function as expected :-)
Hmm, that's not good. You probably either have a drive head that's
going bad, or your tapes are starting to shed oxide. (Maybe just some
tapes in particular - can you correlate when the "use cleaning tape"
light goes on with any particular tape you're using?)
DLT drives should last at least hundred of tape mounts before you need
to clean them, assuming the tapes and drives are OK.
Pat
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