Yes yes ... DDS are crap!! The trouble is that I for one (on my home systems) find it very handy that DDS are crap - I tend to be able to acquire drives & tapes that are about to be thrown out!!! :) & that is probably why we have so many people using them right now!
Andrew R Paterson Systems Engineer DS Ltd -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Arno Lehmann Sent: 03 June 2005 12:00PM To: Stephan Holl Cc: Dietz Proepper; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware or bacula-problem? Hello, Stephan Holl wrote: > Hello Dietz, > > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:41:42 +0200 Dietz Proepper <dietz > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Stephan Holl: >> >>>>Replace the cartridge. Clean the drive. Hold your thumbs :-) >>> >>>I did that 1 week ago. Why do I need to clean the drive that often? >>>I should think about buying more reliable hardware... >> >>If we're talking about a DDS drive then once a week is rather not a >>sign of crappy hardware. When I was using DDS kind of hardware for my >>backups I had to run the cleaning tape after about 5 completely >>written tapes. > > > Thanks for your tips. I will use that more often (and hopefully get > some better hardware soon :-)) Only as an additional information: I use a rather old DDS drive (actually, two of them). I only had to clean the drive after it couldn't read a tape that was written on another DDS drive (which is one of the main faults of DDS as backup media, by the way). Only then the drive decided it needed cleaning. I do use a cleaning cartridge once a month, which means less often than after 5 full tapes but is still more often than the drives think is necessary. My interpretation is that you simply can't rely on the drive's opinion about the necessity of cleaning. DDS is crap. (And still I use it... funny, isn't it?) Arno > Cheers > Stephan > > -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
