On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Christoph Haas wrote: > > First I assumed a broken tape. But then I discovered that half of the > > tapes in my pool are spit out again without being read. However > > sometimes it helps to push the tape back in a dozen times and with a > > little luck the tape gets accepted. > > > > Has anyone seen this effect before? > > Several times.
me too. > > Pushing the cleaning tape through > > didn't improve the situation. I'd be glad if anyone had seen this before > > and can offer a hint or two. > > The drive is faulty, replace it. i blow out the inside of the drive with air duster. that's sometimes enough to get the tapes to load. however, i agree that the once the drive begins to exhibit that behavior on a regular basis, you should look to replace it. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
