As Matthew Dillon wrote ... > The amber LED on exabytes typically means 'drive needs cleaning'. Exabyte > drives should be cleaned once or twice a week depending on how heavily > you use them. If an exabyte drive is not cleaned on a regular basis, the > transfer rate will drop steadily as the drive is forced to rewrite sectors > on the tape. Additionally, the larger gaps produced by the rewrites will > result in much less storage per tape.
Very true. But a 8200 only has a green and an amber LED. Amber is SCSI activity on this model. > I dunno about the 8200. The mamoth exabytes can do 3 MBytes/sec. Any > exabyte drive should transfer up to its rating. If it transfers more > slowly, it is either damaged or in need of cleaning. The 8200 is Mark I and is dog slow compared to the later models. > When purchasing cleaning tapes, be sure to purchase the correct cleaning > tapes for the type of drive you have. Exabytes tend to be fairly > sensitive > and putting in the wrong sort of cleaning tape can damage the head. Yep, stay away from the Video8 cleaning cartridges. Groeten / Cheers, | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
