2 Mar
2005
2 Mar
'05
12:02 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 17:12 -0700, emanuel stiebler
wrote:
Will take a look at that - thanks.
Next question - anyone think of a good reason why a lot of old tapes I
have containing tar archives seem to hit read errors at around 7.8MB
into the tape?
This is reading a pile of *unknown* DC600 tapes in a 150MB drive. I
can't think of any reason why a lot of the tapes hit problems at almost
exactly the same point; I mean the head and motor assembly must be fine
to get that far. But equally it seems odd.
thoughts? Tried cleaning the drive already before anyone mentions it :)
Did you retension and erase the tapes? *ducks*
I don't know all that much about QIC in general, but I had the same
problem with *two* Tandberg TDC3600 drives this week. I found my TDC
4220 and had no problems at all with the same cartridges.
I sort of wonder if it's SCSI-I vs SCSI-II - these were hanging off a
U2W Symbios adapter. For two drives to hiccup the same way in almost
the same place, on several different tapes (two of which proved good on
the TDC 4220), and with you seeing the same behavior, I think that's a
protocol glitch.
Doc