11 May
2007
11 May
'07
2:06 a.m.
Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Heh, it was too. Someone had only bothered to tick off two of the cycles on
the tape itself, but stupid me hadn't bothered to check the physical tape
inside :(
I'm only getting just over 20KB/s out of the drive though, so I'm trying to
trace the problem there at the moment - I gather transfer rate should be more
like 15 times that value. Unfortunately the 'net seems to be populated with
people who want dip switch settings for this (TTi, not the internal Exabyte
drive) unit, but nobody who actually has them.
I've ruled out SCSI problems (at least with the HBA, cabling and termination),
so it looks like the drive itself really is only spitting data out that fast.
mt's status isn't reporting any errors, nor are the SCSI logs, and nor is the
front panel of the drive...
A 31 hour restore if there's 2.3GB of data on the tape is a bit on the lengthy
side...
Unfortunately
it didn't want to accept the cleaning
tape (just spat it
straight back out again) - I was worried there was a
fault with the tape
transport, but it's accepted one of the 8mm
cartridges just fine.
Check to be sure the cleaning tape isn't all the way
at the end.